Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. 307.

"Backward springs" : the self-invention of Martha Moulsworth / Germaine Greer -- Identity and numbers in Martha Moulsworth's "Memorandum" / Isobel Grundy -- Life and times of Martha Moulsworth / Robert C. Evans -- Martha Moulsworth and the uses of rhetoric : love, mourning, and reciprocity / Anthony Low -- Marginally funny : Martha Moulsworth's puns / Anne Lake Prescott -- Poem as a clock : Martha Moulsworth tells time three ways / Mary Ellen Lamb -- "The Memorandum," sacraments, and Ewelme Church / Matthew Steggle -- "By him I was brought upp" : evoking the Father in Moulsworth's "Memorandum" / Anne C. Little -- Martha Moulsworth's "Memorandum" : Crossing the climacteric / Susie Paul -- Biblical resonance in Moulsworth's "memorandum" / Robert C. Evans and Neil P. Probst. "My inward house" : women's autobiographical poetry in the early seventeenth century / Josephine A. Roberts -- "My muse is a tell clocke" : the paradox of ritual autobiography in Martha Moulsworth's "Memorandum" / Curtis Perry -- Research sources on seventeenth-century women's autobiography / Karen Worley Pirnie -- "The muses females are" : Renaissance women and education / John T. Shawcross -- Early modern women and "the muses ffemall" / Frances Teague -- Educating women and the lower orders / Jean R. Brink -- "The widdowes silvar": widowhood in early Modern England / Esther S. Cope.