Maids and mistresses, cousins and queens : women's alliances in early modern England / edited by Susan Frye, Karen Robertson.

Maids and mistresses, cousins and queens : women's alliances in early modern England / edited by Susan Frye, Karen Robertson.

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

xviii, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

"Began as a seminar at the Shakespeare of America Association Meeting of 1993 in Atlanta and the project continued to expand"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-341) and index.

Maidservants of London : sisterhoods of kinship and labor / Ann Rosalind Jones
Women, work, and plays in an English medieval town / Mary Wack
Women's networks and the female vagrant / Jodi Mikalachki

'No good thing ever comes out of it' : male expectation and female alliance in Dekker and Webster's Westward ho / Simon Morgan-Russell
'A P(ar)cell of murdereing bitches' : female relationships in an eighteenth-century slaveholding household / Kathleen M. Brown
The appropriation of pleasure in The magnetic lady / Helen Ostovich
Female alliance and the construction of homoeroticism in As you like it and Twelfth night / Jessica Tvordi
'Companion me with my mistress' : Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, and their waiting women / Elizabeth A. Brown
Tracing women's connections from a letter by Elizabeth Ralegh / Karen Robertson
Sewing connections : Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth Talbot, and seventeenth-century anonymous needleworkers / Susan Frye
'Faire Eliza's chaine' : two female writers' literary links to Queen Elizabeth I / Lisa Gim
Mary Ward's 'Jesuitresses' and the construction of a typological community / Lowell Gallagher
The dearth of the author : anonymity's allies and Swetnam the woman-hater / Valerie Wayne
The erotics of female friendship in early modern England / Harriette Andreadis
Alliance and exile : Aphra Behn' racial identity / Margo Hendricks
Aemilia Lanyer and the invention of white womanhood / Barbara Bowen.

United States -- New York (State) -- New York.

HQ1599.E5 M35 1999