Co-edited by Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith, this encyclopedia on early modern women’s writing from the English Reformation to the Restoration  focuses on writing by or attributed to women, written in or translated into English, in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Europe, and the Americas.  It is designed to provide coverage of six established chronological periods: - Early Tudor (1526-1557), Elizabethan (1558-1603), Jacobean (1603-1625), Caroline (1625-1649), English Civil War & Interregnum (1642-1660), and Restoration (1660-1688). With almost 400 entries, the encyclopedia is organised through broad theoretical, material, generic, and thematic categories, as well as by period.