Pamela Hammons - Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early Modern Lyric

The assistance, encouragement, and support of many mentors, friends, colleagues, and institutions across several years have made this book possible. Barbara Correll has seen the project through from its initial conception to its realization. I am very grateful for her kind guidance, keen criticism, and overflowing garden. I will always admire her for her professional integrity and her courage in defending her intellectual ideals. William Kennedy, Dorothy Mermin, and Rachel Weil have always been generous in sharing their expertise and advice, for which I am deeply thankful. Likewise, I am truly indebted to Andy Galloway; his enthusiasm for intellectual inquiry and his painstaking attention to Katherine Austens commonplace book, Book M, were indispensable to my completion of this book. He saw the value of Book M immediately and encouraged me to pursue my studies of it at a time when I was unsure whether or how to approach it. Margaret J.M. Ezell provided me with extensive, invaluable advice about how to improve this book when it was in its crucial last stages, as well as with important feedback when I presented a conference paper on Katherine Austen at the University of Tulsas Annual Comparative Literature Symposium in 1997. I am similarly thankful to Nigel Smith for his helpful comments on my work at that same conference. Teresa Feroli has consistently been an insightful and gracious reader of my work. Likewise, Bernadette Andrea, Timothy Billings, and Heather White have helped to make my work better than it would otherwise be through their careful, attentive readings of it. Mark Blackwell, David Garcia, Nate Johnson, Rohan Maitzen, Philip Virgen, and Rich Weldgen were among the earliest readers of my work; their insights had an important influence in shaping it. I am thankful to Debra Castillo and Marilyn Mumford for their enthusiastic support and professional advice, as well as to my mentors in the University of Central Floridas Department of English: Judith Hemschemeyer, Stuart Omans, Pat Rushin, Jerry Schiffhorst, and Dawn Trouard.

I am grateful to Barbara Bmith and Ursula Appelt for their inclusirn of an earlier version of part of was first published as Katherine Austens Country House Innovations in SEL: Studies in English Literature 40, 1 (Winter 2000): 123137. I would like to thank the William Marsh Rice University, the Johns Hopkins University Press, and SEL for permission to publish the revised version of that essay in this book. Robert L. Patten, editor of SEL, gave me especially useful, supportive advice about how to make my work on women poets as accessible as possible to scholars outside my field. I am thankful to Allyson M. Poska and Abby Zanger, the editors of Ashgates series, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World, for including my work in such a dynamic series. Erika Gaffney, Celia Hoare, Ruth Peters, and Frances Britain of Ashgate have been consistently helpful and courteous in the preparation of this book. I am particularly grateful to Erika for her sensitivity to authorial anxiety.

Several institutions have provided material support without which I could not have written this book. I am grateful for the award of a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, which supported my graduate education at Cornell University and the timely completion of my dissertation on early modern women poets. Also while I was at Cornell, funding from a Margaret Werly Fellowship and a Womens Studies Beatrice Brown Award supported my graduate education and my initial foray into archival research respectively. Likewise, I am thankful for an in-house research grant from the University of Central Florida, which enabled me to have the time away from teaching necessary to complete this book. I am also indebted to the Department of English at the University of Central Florida for its material support of the books final revisions. I could not have performed the research necessary to write this book without access to the fine collections at Cornell Universitys Olin Library, the British Library, and the Bodleian Library and without the assistance of their skilled librarians.

Finally, the ongoing emotional support of my friends and family gave me the strength to see this project through every stage of its creation. In many cases, I have been lucky to have had friends who provided scholarly advice as well as emotional support, as is true of many of those mentioned above. In addition, I am deeply thankful for the friendships of Phil and Carol Acree Cavalier, Lee Behlman, Rose Beiler, Maria Bulln-Fernndez, Adenike Davidson, Ana Echevarra, Thamora Fishel, Elizabeth Frost, Derek Hackett, Siana Laforest, Jeanne Leiby, Eric Lindemer, Lisa Logan, David Nagle, Rachel Preiser, Heather Roberts, Jean-Daniel Saphores, Heather White, and Jordan Yin. Thanks, too, to all those friends at Cornell willing to play soccer, and those there and elsewhere who have granted me their kindness and stimulating conversation. I offer my deep, enduring gratitude to my parents--Lynn Duncan, Charles Hammons, Curtis Olsen, and Anna Suttle--for everything they have given me, which is far too much to describe. I am also grateful to Tim Hammons and Duncan Hammons, my brothers, who have supported me in their own unique ways; no one could ask for better brothers. I am thankful to Blanche (Nannie) Baird, Clara Hammons, and E.E. Suttle for their pride and love: I will always remember them. Finally, I dedicate this book to Anna Grace Suttle, my mother, in thanks for her love, encouragement, example, and many questions, and to Gema Prez-Snchez, whose eyes have scrutinized every page of this book and whose love sees me through every day--gracias por todo.