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April 2019 – Axes of Uncertainty and Recovering Women’s Voices in Early Modern Miscellanies.
Eric McCarthy for the SSEMWG Blog
I began with what seemed like a straightforward question: which female-authored works were transcribed most often in manuscript miscellanies? It was easy enough to produce a ranked list of the works in the miscellanies we had consulted, but a problem quickly became apparent: the attributions of several of the most frequently transcribed poems are questionable at best and demonstrably false at worst. Continue reading