This is the ninth volume in the series on English manuscript studies. It addresses writings by early modern women and contributors include: Jane Stevenson on Women, Writing and Scribal Publication in the Sixteenth Century; Frances Teague on Princess Elizabeth's Hand in 'The Glass of the Sinful Soul'; Anneke Tjan-Bakker on Dame Flora's Blossom: Esther Inglis's Flower-Illustrated Manuscripts; Georgianna Ziegler on Hand Ma i]de Books - The Manuscripts of Esther Inglis, Early Modern Precursors of the Artists' Book; Steven W. May on Two Unpublished Letters by Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; Victoria Burke on Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson's 'Motherlie Endeavours'; Sylvia Brown on The Approbation of Elizabeeth Jocelin; and more.