Bowen, Barbara. “Aemilia Lanyer and the Invention of White Womanhood.” Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England. Eds. Susan Frye and Karen Robertson. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 165-182. Print.

Barbara Bowen —Lanyer “to reconceptualize the mater narratives of her culture” “ (Bowen—“forced to negotiate culturally gendered boundaries even as she works to transgress or to dissolve them” (Bowen 277-278).