Chapter 1 Introduction: In Dialogue with Nature: New Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity

Chapter 2 N/nature and the Difference “She” Makes

Chapter 3 First “Mother of Science”: Milton’s Eve, Knowledge, and Nature

Chapter 4 Ecofeminist Eve: Artists Reading Milton’s Heroine

Chapter 5 On Elizabeth Isham’s “Oil of Swallows”: Animal Slaughter and Early Modern Women’s Medical Recipes

Chapter 6 Woolley’s Mouse: Early Modern Recipe Books and the Uses of Nature

Chapter 7 Preserving Nature in Hannah Woolley’s The Queen-Like Closet; or Rich Cabinet

Chapter 9 The Secrets of Grafting in Wroth’s Urania

Chapter 10 Language “like a thousand little stars on the trees and on the grass”: Environmental inscription in Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague

Chapter 11 Afterword