Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England

Mediatrix Is About The Roles Women Played As Patrons, Dedicatees, And Readers, As Well As Writers, In The English Renaissance, And The Relationship Between These Literary Activities And Religious And Political Activism. In Particular, The Book Argues That The Interrelated Literary Communities Centered On Mary Sidney Herbert, Margaret Hoby, Lucy Harrington Russell, And Mary Sidney Wroth, Which Were Responsible For The Production Of Works Ranging Fromphilip Sidney's Arcadia And John Donne's Poetry To Wroth's Own Romance, The Urania, Were As Concerned With What Has Often Been Called 'politically Active' Humanism As They Were With Illustrious Genealogies (the'sidneys') Or Finding A Voice For The 'woman Writer'.