ABSTRACT
Lady Anne Clifford was an articulate and powerful figure who gives the lie to a whole complex of modern assumptions about what was possible for women in seventeenth-century English society. This chapter examines a very late edition of A Mirror for Magistrates, published in 1609–10. It concludes with Heywood’s long poem England’s Eliza. These castles are all properties of Anne. Finally, women were not at all excluded as producers from this system, any more than they were excluded as readers. If Clifford’s library included a copy of Milton’s 1645 Poems, it was available to her through the agency of a printer named Ruth Raworth. Ruth was an active and well-regarded printer from the 1630s to the 1660s. The usual way of disposing of the problem of Early Modern Ruth to declare them unexceptional: they need not be taken into account since they are merely serving as surrogates for men. Ruth, however, is not a surrogate for her husband.
