Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-281) and index.
Introduction: gender, authorship, and early modern women's collaboration / Patricia Pender and Alexandra Day -- Katherine Parr, Henry VIII, and royal literary collaboration / Micheline White -- Collaboration in the Parliamentary speeches of Queen Elizabeth I / Leah S. Marcus -- Conflicted collaboration in The Mothers legacy / Rebecca Stark-Gendrano -- Collaboration, authorship, and gender in the paratexts accompanying translations by Susan Du Verger and Judith Man / Brenda M. Hosington -- Literary gifts: performance and collaboration in the Arundel/Lumley family manuscripts / Alexandra Day -- The clerics and the learned lady: intertextuality in the religious writings of Lady Jane Grey / Louise Horton -- Paratextual marginalia, early modern women, and collaboration / Rosaline Smith -- "All fell not in Pharsalias Field": Lucy Harington Russell and the historical epic / Julie Crawford -- "A veray patroness": Margaret Beaufort and the early English printers / Patricia Pender -- Afterword: "Her book" and early modern modes of collaboration / Margaret J.M. Ezell