Beilin, Elaine V. Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1987. Print.

“her considerable knowledge of English poetry, her scriptural reading” (Beilin 179).”a familiarity wiit traditional debate material” (Beilin 179).

Lanyer includes herself into the community she imagines and creates “admiring portraits of living women praised as the descendants of a redeemed Eve, the daughters of Jerusalem, and the Virgin” (Beilin 182).