Miller, Shannon. “‘Mirrours More Then One’: Edmund Spenser and Faa;Male Authority in the Seventeenth Century.” Worldmaking Spenser in the Early Modern Age. Eds. Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2000. Print.

Shannon Miller —suggests “Lanyer directs her text’s dedication to ‘a multiplicity of patrons’ because she ‘divides the form of influence each woman has on the text,’ manipulating the superior class status of the dedicatees to her advantage, wit the effect that different women, though most particularly Queen Anne and Margaret, Countess of Cumberland, appear at moments to be the ‘primary patron’ (Miller 137-8)” (Sondergard 157).