Reviews

"Hannay's impressive book is a no-nonsense literary biography of one of the most important women on the literary scene of the time."--Recent Studies in English Renaissance
"Hannay's book is very rewarding to read...thorough and meticulous primary research."--Renaissance Quarterly
"An invaluable resource for some years to come."--Literary History
"This important biography of a leading early modern woman writer will be an extremely useful resource: it is packed with detail, and includes five previously unknown and unpublished letters by the Countess of Pembroke....[I]t is a highly impressive work of scholarship."--Notes and Queries
"A biography that is at once more candid, clearer, and more comprehensive than any we have had before."--Sixteenth Century Journal
"Hannay's impressive book is a no-nonsense literary biography of one of the most important women on the literary scene of the time."--Recent Studies in English Renaissance
"Hannay's book is very rewarding to read...thorough and meticulous primary research."--Renaissance Quarterly
"An invaluable resource for some years to come."--Literary History
"This important biography of a leading early modern woman writer will be an extremely useful resource: it is packed with detail, and includes five previously unknown and unpublished letters by the Countess of Pembroke....[I]t is a highly impressive work of scholarship."--Notes and Queries
"A biography that is at once more candid, clearer, and more comprehensive than any we have had before."--Sixteenth Century Journal
"An intriguing study."--Choice
"Margaret Hannay makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the life of one of the most significant literary figures of the Elizabethan and early Stuart reigns....Hannay's study strikes a balance between recording intimate minutiae of daily life and charting the progression of events. Much of her reconstruction of history exudes the warmth and also the wrath of feminist criticism. Some will hold that this style of presentation lacks intellectual
rigor, is uncritical, economical with the truth, and old fashioned. In Hannay's version it is highly readable, clear, and packed with meaningful documentation carefully presented by a discerning
scholar."--Sidney Newsletter
"Timely indeed, Impressively sourced to scores of primary documents, each consulted first-hand...Philip's Phoenix embodies years of careful scholarship."--Albion
"The biography provides detailed coverage...An especially valuable contribution is Hannay's presentation of new letters by the countess of Pembroke in her original wording."--Albion