Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 3 “Rather a Strong and Constant Man”: Margaret Pole and the Problem of Women’s Independence

Chapter 4 Religious Intent and the Art of Courteous Pleasantry: A Few Letters from Englishwomen to Heinrich Bullinger (1543–1562)

Chapter 5 Elizabeth Cary and Intersections of Catholicism and Gender in Early Modern England

Chapter 6 Eleanor Davies and the New Jerusalem

Chapter 7 The Failure of Godly Womanhood: Religious and Gender Identity in the Life of Lady Elizabeth Delaval

Chapter 8 Haunting History: Women, Catholicism, and the Writing of National History in Sophia Lee’s The Recess

Chapter 9 Stripped of Their Altars: Film, Faith, and Tudor Royal Women from the Silent Era to the Twenty-First Century, 1895–2014