Primary Texts

• Jill Seal-Millman and Gillian Wright ed., Early Modern Women's Manuscript Poetry (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), pp. 111-27

• Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson ed., Early Modern Women Poets (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 187-94

 

Articles About Pulter

Online:

• Introducing Hester Pulter and the Perdita Project

 Elizabeth Clarke, Literature Compass 2 (2005)

• A ‘Perfect Circle’? Alchemy in the Poetry of Hester Pulter

 Jayne Archer, Literature Compass 2 (2005)

• Hester Pulter (c. 1596--1678). A Woman Poet and the New Astronomy

  Sarah Hutton, Études Épistémè, 14 (2008)

• Reading Hester Pulter Reading

 Mark Robson, Literature Compass 2 (2005)

• Tears, Bezoars and Blazing Comets: Gender and Politics in Hester Pulter's Civil War Lyrics

 Sarah Ross, Literature Compass 2 (2005)

other:

• Peter Davidson, 'Green Thoughts. Marvell's Gardens: Clues to Two Curious Puzzles', Times Literary Supplement, 5044 (3 December, 1999), pp. 14-15
• Alice Eardley, "Saturn (whose aspects soe sads my soule)": Lady Hester Pulter's Feminine Melancholic Genius' in Michael Denbo ed., News Ways of Looking at Old Texts: Papers of the Renaissance English Texts Society 2002-2006 (Tempe: ACMRS, 2009), pp. 239-52.
• Alice Eardley and Demmy Verbeke, 'Remembering Mary Ley (d. 1613): The Bilingual Commemorative Verses in the Harington Papers' in LIAS 35 (2008), pp. 177-86.
• Marcus Nevitt, 'The Insults of Defeat: Royalist Responses to sir William Davenant's Gondibert (1651)', The Seventeenth Century 24.2 (2009), pp. 287-304.

• Mark Robson, 'Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter', English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 9 (2000), pp. 238-56

Articles and Books that Mention Pulter

online:

• Dying with Honour: Literary Propaganda and the Second Civil War

Andrea Brady, The Journal of Military History 70.1 (2006), pp. 9-30

• 'Virtue's Commonwealth': Gendering the Royalist Cultural Rebellion in the English Interregnum (1649-1660)

Catherine Coussens, Journal of Arts and Sciences 6 (2006), pp. 19-31

• The Laughing Tortoise: Speculations on Manuscript Sources and Women's Book History

Margaret Ezell, English Literary Renaissance 38.2 (2008), pp. 331-55

other:

• Kate Cedqzoy, Women's Writing in the British Atlantic World: Memory, Place and History 1550-1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 144-53

Further Reading

 

Early modern women and their writing

Carol Barash, English Women's Poetry, 1649-1714: Politics, Community and Linguistic Authority (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)

Mary E, Burke, Jane Donawerth, Linda L. Dove and Karen Nelson eds., Women, Writing and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000)

Victoria Burke and Jonathan Gibson ed., Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)

Bernard Capp, When Gossips Meet: Women, Family and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)

Hero Chalmers, Royalist Women Writers 1650-1689 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004)

Kenneth Charlton, Women, Religon and Education in Early Modern England (London: Routledge, 1999)

Elizabeth Clarke and Danielle Clarke ed., This Double Voice: Gendered Writing in Early Modern England (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)

Erica Longfellow, Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford, Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)

Mihoko Suzuki, Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation and Literary Form in England, 1588-1688 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003)

Susan Wiseman, Conspiracy and Virtue: Women, Writing and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

 

Emblems

Michael Bath, Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture (London: Longman, 1994)

Michael Bath and Daniel Russell ed., Deviceful Settings: The English Renaissance Emblem and its Contexts (New York: AMS Press, 1999)

Peter Daly, Literature in Light of the Emblem 2nd ed (Toronton: University of Toronto Press, 1998)

Louis Marz, The Poetry of Meditation: A Study of English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century 2nd ed (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954)

Royalism and the English Civil Wars

Raymond Anselment, Loyalist Resolve: Patient Fortitude in the English Civil War (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1988)

Thomas Corns ed., The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Jerome de Groot, Royalist Identities (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2004)

James Loxley, Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars: The Drawn Sword (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997)

Laura Lunger Knoppers, Contructing Cromwell: Ceremony, Portrait and Print 1645-1661 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Jason McElligott and David L. Smith, Royalists and Royalism During the English Civil Wars (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Earl Miner, The Cavalier Mode from Jonson to Cotton (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971)

Lois Potter, Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature, 1641-1660 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Isabel Rivers, The Poetry of Conservatism (Cambridge: Rivers Press, 1973)

David L. Smith, Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c. 1640-1649 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth ed., The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination (Columbia: Missouri Press, 1999)

Robert Wilcher, The Writing of Royalism 1628-1660 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)

Manuscripts

Margaret Ezell, The Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987)

Harold Love, Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)

Arthur Marotti, Manuscript, Print and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995)

Wendy Wall, The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1993)