Deel 1: 'Women's lives and women's texts bevat de volgende bijdragen': Constructions of women readers / door Mary Ellen Lamb: Circulating texts in early modern England / door Wendy Wall: Women's manuscript miscellanies in early modern England / door Elizabeth Clarke: Women writing literature in Italy and France / door Pamela J. Benson: Writing history / door Elaine V. Beilin: Writing religion / door John N. King, Frances E. Dolan en Elaine Hobby: Writing society / door Naomi J. Miller. In het tweede deel worden de volgende auteurs besproken: Queen Elizabeth I, Anne Vaughan Lock, Mary Sidney, Lady Mary Wroth, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, Rachel Speght, Katherine Philips, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle en Aphra Behn. In deel drie komen onderwijsmodellen aan de orde: Teaching the writings of early modern women from a theoretical perspective / door Gary F. Waller: Theory in the teaching of early modern women writers / door Paula Loscocco: Early modern women writing race / door Kim F. Hall en Gwynne Kennedy: Juxtaposing genders: Jane Lead and John Milton / door Betty S. Travitsky en Anne Lake Prescott: Portraits: self and other / door Erna Kelly: Archival studies: retrieving the 'nonexistent' women writers of the English Renaissance / door Ann Hurley: Illuminating the margins of the early modern period: using women's voices in the history class / door Carole Levin: Teaching (early modern women's) writing / door Bernadette Andrea: Canons and course packs: teaching seventeenth-century women's writing in Belfast / door Ramona Wray: Teaching class: Whitney's 'Wyll and testament' and Nashe's 'Litany in time of plague' / door Patricia Brace: Isabella Whitney and the ideologies of writing and publication / door Lynette F. McGrath: Seven faces of Cleopatra / door Elizabeth Patton: Aemilia Lanyer and virtue / door Mary V. Silcox: Diabolic dreamscape in Lanyer and Milton / door Josephine A. Roberts: Teaching Aphra Behn's 'The disappointment' / door Stephen C. Behrendt: Teaching Aphra Behn's 'The rover' / door Robin Ikegami. Deel 4 noemt bronnen voor verder onderzoek: Lost in the archives? Searching for records of early modern women / door Georgianna Ziegler: Traditional studies of early women writers / door Suzanne W. Hull: 'My bookes and pen I wyll apply': recent studies of early modern British women writers / door Sara Jayne Steen.