Renaissance Women: The Plays of Elizabeth Cary and the Poems of Aemilia Lanyer Elizabeth Viscountess Falkland Cary
This volume brings together two of the earliest women writers. Elizabeth Cary's (1585-1639) The Tragedie of Mariam is one of the first in English known to be the work of a woman writer. Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) wrote the strongly feminist Salve Deus Rex Judaorum which was published in 1611.