Authorizing Early Modern European Women

James Fitzmaurice is emeritus professor of English at Northern Arizona University and honorary research fellow at the University of Sheffield. He has published a great deal on Margaret Cavendish, and his screenplays have been selected for or won prizes at many film festivals. Naomi J. Miller is Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. She has published award-winning books on early modern women and gender and teaches courses on Shakespeare and his female contemporaries. Sara Jayne Steen has authored and edited five volumes largely on early modern women and theater, including The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart, and has received awards for teaching and scholarship. She was faculty member, chair, and dean at Montana State University and is president emerita of Plymouth State University.

List of Figures Acknowledgments

1. James Fitzmaurice, Naomi J. Miller, and Sara Jayne Steen: "Introduction: Biography, Biofiction, and Gender in the Modern Age"

Section I: Fictionalizing Biography
2. Bárbara Mujica: "Sister Teresa: Fictionalizing a Saint" [Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582); practitioner: nun; author]
3. Catherine Padmore: "Portrait of an Unknown Woman: Fictional Representations of Levina Teerlinc, Tudor Paintrix" [Levina Teerlinc (1510/20–1576); visual artist]
4. Frima Fox Hofrichter: "An Interview with Dominic Smith, Author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: Capturing the Seventeenth Century" [Judith Leyster (1609–1660) and Sara van Baalbergen (fl. 1631–1634); visual artists]
5. Susanne Woods: "Lanyer: The Dark Lady and the Shades of Fiction" [Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645); author]
6. Marina Leslie: "Archival Bodies, Novel Interpretations, and the Burden of Margaret Cavendish" [Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673); author]

Section II: Materializing Authorship
7. Susan Frye: "Bess of Hardwick: Materializing Autobiography" [Elizabeth Talbot (1527?–1608); creator of textiles]
8. Sarah Gristwood: "The Queen as Artist: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart" [Mary Queen of Scots (1542–1587) and Elizabeth I (1533–1603); practitioners: queens; embroiderer; authors]
9. Marion Wynne-Davies: "'Very Secret Kept': Facts and Re-Creation in Margaret Hannay’s Biographies of Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Wroth" [Mary Sidney Herbert (1561–1621) and Mary Wroth (1586–1652); authors]
10. Naomi J. Miller: "Imagining Shakespeare’s Sisters: Fictionalizing Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth" [Mary Sidney Herbert (1561–1621) and Mary Wroth (1586–1652); authors]
11. Linda Phyllis Austern: "Anne Boleyn, Musician: A Romance Across Centuries and Media"[Anne Boleyn (c. 1500–1536); musician]

Section III: Performing Gender
12. Sheila T. Cavanagh: "Reclaiming Her Time: Artemisia Gentileschi Speaks to the Twenty-First Century" [Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1656); visual artist]
13. Hailey Bachrach: "Beyond the Record: Emilia and Feminist Historical Recovery" [Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645); author]
14. James Fitzmaurice: "Writing, Acting, and the Notion of Truth in Biofiction About Early Modern Women Authors" [Aphra Behn (1640–1689) and Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673); authors]
15. Emilie L. Bergmann: "Jesusa Rodríguez’s Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Reflections on an Opaque Body"[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695); practitioner: nun; author]

Section IV: Authoring Identity
16. Margaret F. Rosenthal: "From Hollywood Film to Musical Theater: Veronica Franco in American Popular Culture" [Veronica Franco (1546–1591); author]
17. Julia Dabbs: "The Role of Art in Recent Biofiction on Sofonisba Anguissola" [Sofonisba Anguissola (1532–1625); visual artist]
18. Stephanie Russo: "'I Am Artemisia': Art and Trauma in Joy McCullough's Blood Water Paint" [Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1656); visual artist]
19. Sara Jayne Steen: "The Lady Arbella Stuart, a 'Rare Phoenix': Her Re-Creation in Biography and Biofiction" [Arbella Stuart (1575–1615); letter writer]
20. Sara Read: "The Gossips' Choice: Extending the Possibilities for Biofiction with Creative Uses of Sources" [Jane Sharp (active 1671) and Sarah Stone (active 1701–1737); practitioners: midwives]

21. Michael Lackey: Afterword

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