Book M: A London Widow's Life Writings

"This excellent piece of work brings a new and fascinating seventeenth-century voice to twenty-first-century readers interested in women’s studies, literature, and history. Book M by the London widow Katherine Austen lends itself well to modernization, which Professor Hammons has handled in a light and tactful manner. This book will be an excellent choice for classes on life writing in general and on early modern women’s writing in particular, and it will be a great contextual reading for courses on British Restoration culture and literature."

-Margaret J. M. Ezell, Distinguished Professor of English and John and Sara Lindsay Chair of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University

PAMELA S. HAMMONS is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. She specializes in early modern English literature, manuscript culture, poetry, women’s writing, and theories of gender and sexuality. She is the author of Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse (Ashgate 2010), Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early Modern Lyric (Ashgate 2002), and numerous articles on early modern literature and culture.

REVIEWS
Early Modern Women 10.1 (2015): 233–235. Reviewed by Barbara J. Todd.
Parergon 32.2 (2015): 258–259. Reviewed by Lisa Di Crescenzo.
Renaissance & Reformation 38.2 (2015): 155–157. Reviewed by Janice Liedl.
Renaissance Quarterly 68.1 (2015): 314–315. Reviewed by Carrie Hintz.
The Sixteenth Century Journal 46.3 (2015): 734–736. Reviewed by Elizabeth Kelley Bowman.
Women’s History Review 24.3 (2015): 471–473. Reviewed by Stephanie Appleton.