Abstract
The religious writings of Lady Jane Grey are assumed to be the deeply personal and dogmatic juvenilia of England’s nine day queen. Mined for evidence of Grey’s character and absorbed into the myths surrounding her life and death, the texts have been mostly neglected in the history of early modern women’s writing. Yet the Grey canon is deceptively complex and gendered. Sharing the style, tone, and lexicon of prominent male clerics, it was produced and transmitted within a community that fashioned, and printed, the literature of the early English reformation. Consequently, exploring intertexuality in the Grey texts raises complex questions about the attribution of authorship for the work and the collaborative practices that delivered the writing to an emerging martyrologist market.
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Horton, L. (2017). The Clerics and the Learned Lady: Intertextuality in the Religious Writings of Lady Jane Grey. In: Pender, P. (eds) Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration . Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58777-6_7
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