ABSTRACT
Edward Phillips’s “Women Among the Moderns Eminent for Poetry,” printed in 1675, listed the following noteworthy female English poets: “Anne Askew, Anne Bradstreet, Arabella, Astrea Behn, Lady Bacon, Catherine Philips, Lady Elizabeth Carew, Elizabetha Joanna Westonia, Lady Jane Grey, Margaret, Dutchess of New-Castle, Mary, Countesse of Pembroke, Lady Mary Wroth, Mildreda, Lady Russell.”1 Yet in the Restoration period the interest in recovering early modern female writers receded into the background as neoclassicism and emerging notions of canonicity established priorities for readers and writers alike.
