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Marvelous idea, marvelous title. I could do one if I can have next summer
(2003) to do it, I'm overcommitted until then. I'd like to write up one of
my role models: Rosamund Tuve, Kathleen Williams, or Frances Yates. Having
edited Ficino's De Vita and thus become conversant with her Giordano Bruno
and the Hermetic Tradition, I can lay claim to some expertise on Dame
Frances, whereas Tom Roche knows more than I do about Ros Tuve.
  At 09:10 AM 1/1/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Spenserians and Sidneians,
>Please write to me with proposals for brief pieces you'd like to
>contribute for the new series in *The Spenser Review*  described here.
>(Thanks to Roland Greene for discovering the right name of the series;
>thanks to everyone whose roll-calls of women scholars convinced me even
>more than I was that we need to do this series.)
>Many thanks,
>Terry
>
>De Mulieribus claris
>
>The Spenser Review announces a new series, of short pieces remembering the
>careers of women scholars of medieval and Renaissance literature from the
>early days of the profession until 1975:  until postmodernism and
>second-wave feminism changed the face of literary scholarship.  In keeping
>with the Review's mission of documenting and preserving scholarship and
>its local, specific contexts, we invite pieces written as memoir; analyses
>of individual women's careers and the nature of their structural roles in
>the profession and the institution; surveys of a woman scholar's work;
>investigations of specific events like the five articles by women in a
>1926 PMLA or the University of Virginia dissertation from the 1930s on
>16th and 17th-century women writers.  The work and careers of many
>remarkable women call for intelligent documentation and analysis, among
>them Marjorie Hope Allen, Josephine Waters Bennett, Muriel Bradbrook, Lily
>Bess Campbell, Rosalie Colie, Madeleine Doran, Enid Ellis-Fermor, Helen
>Gardner,  Isabel MacCaffrey, Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Rosemond Tuve, Joan
>Webber, Enid Welsford, Helen C. White, Kathleen Williams, Lilian
>Winstanley, Frances Yates.  Note that this series isn't limited to women
>scholars who worked on Spenser.
>
>The series will be supervised by current Spenser Review editor Theresa
>Krier, with the assistance of a board comprised of Judith H. Anderson,
>Heather Dubrow, Andrew Hadfield, and Debora Shuger. Some pieces will be
>commissioned, but we hope that many people will send proposals for pieces
>they would like to contribute.
>
>We anticipate being able to print one piece per issue, of a maximum of
>3000 words.  If authors strongly wish to contribute longer pieces, we
>suggest writing an essay in sections, such that it could be serialized.
>
>Please send all inquiries to the editor, Theresa Krier, at [log in to unmask] or
>Theresa Krier, editor
>The Spenser Review
>Department of English
>University of Notre Dame
>Notre Dame, Indiana  46556
>U.S.A.