This book reveals women writers' key role in constituting seventeenth-century public culture and, in doing so, offers a new reading of that culture as begun in intimate circles of private dialogue and extended along transnational networks of public debate.

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Catharine Gray is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

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Crossing Borders: From Private Dialogue to Public Debate Feeding on the Seed of the Woman: Dorothy Leigh and the Figure of Maternal Dissent At 'Liberty to Preach in the Chambers': Sarah Wight, Henry Jessey, and the New-Modeled Community of Saints The Knowing Few: Katherine Philips and The Post-Courtly Coterie News from the New World: Anne Bradstreet and Pan-Protestant Poetics Gathering and Scattering in Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers