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-Born in England in 1569
_She died at the age of 76
_She was the illegitimate daughter of an Italian court musician
-She was forced to work as a maid at a young age
-She later received an education in religious theory, classical literature, and contemporary poetry
-As a teenaged girl she became the mistress to Lord Henry Carey Hunsdon (first cousin to Queen Elizabeth)
-She became pregnant at the age of 23 and was abandoned by Lord Henry Carey, but wedded to a court musician and solider, Alphonso Lanyer.
-Aemilia had the son of Lord Hunsdon in 1593 he was named Henry
-She had a daughter of Alphonson that was born in 1598 but died 10 months later.
_ Aemilia Lanyer and her husband lived well with a steady income.
-Her husband died in 1613, Aemilia then focused on keeping the rights of his patent for her family.
-In 1617, she opened a school in London but later retired because the lease was lost
-At this time she was living with her son and his family there are no evidence that she wrote again
-She died in 1645 and was buried in St. James, Clerkenwell.
"To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty"
-Addresses Anne of Denmark
1. Asks her to read what is hardly ever read, a women's writing, and thus gracing both her and her work even if it may be "defective"
2. Tells her about her writing of "Eve's apology in defense of women" and asks her to please read and criticize it, and state whether on not she agrees
3. She states how she just sort of ventured and took a risk in writing this but hopes the Lady will find her work pleasing.
4. She asks for forgiveness for she has intruded in a male occupation yet knowing she can't compare
5. States that nature is the basis of art and that be her inspiration and aid her in the defense of the female sex.
6. Aemilia claims her poetry can do the princess no justice, she would rather stop before the work "obscure rather than promote the queen's fame."
"Eve's Apology in Defense of Women"
-Eve is not the speaker, the narrator presents Eve's apology which is also in defense of females.
-States that females should not be seen as the perpetrators for it was men who were given the power to rule us all.
-Eve had been taken advantage of by the serpent for had she known she was going to lose she would have not listened to the serpent.
- Though Eve did mess up, Adam's trespass was greater since he was in charge of all thus he should have been stronger.
-Eve therefore should not be the one to blame for the fall of mankind since Adam knew the command of God.
-"The Description of Cookham"
A country-house poem is a minor genre in which a patrons estate was seen as the subject-matter. Aemilia Lanyer wrote the first country-house poem.
17th CENTURY!!!!!!!
-It was also the first poem to grant women a higher religious authority than men.
-Her first volume of poems "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" was published in 1611
-Her writing was seen throughout the 17th Century reason why it was controversial
-Aemilia was the first Englishwomen to publish substantial poems
- Lanyer praised qualities of specific women whom she hope would act as patrons for her
-The collection of poems in "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" which promotes the major role women have in Christian values and gives feminism a thrust forward
- "The Description of Cookham" which focuses on the Passion of Christ from a female point of view
-"The Description of Cooke-ham" was one of the first poems of religious devotion published by a female
-"The Description of Cookham" was the first pastoral poem written, five years before Ben Jonson's "To Penshurst"
"To the Virtuous Reader"
-This small narration talks about how men have talked ill about females when in fact if it weren't for women who gave them life and nurtured them that they wouldn't be anything.
-The opening starts with her feminist streak saying that women to can write like men do.
WEB
-www.poemhunter.com/aemilia-lanyer/biography
-www.enotes.com/aemilia-lanyer-criticism/lanyer-aemilia
-www.usask.ca/english/phoenix/lanyerbio.htm
BOOKS
-Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre and the Canon by Marshall Grossman
-The Norton Anthology English Literature (Eight Edition, Volume 1)