SOURCE: Woods, Susanne. “Anne Lock and Aemilia Lanyer: A Tradition of Protestant Women Speaking.” In Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, edited by Amy Boesky and Mary Thomas Crane, pp. 171-84. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000.

In the following essay, Woods finds connections between the English author Anne Lock and Lanyer.

Two of the most interesting early modern English women writers are Anne Vaughan Lock (c. 1534-c. 1590) and Aemilia Bassano Lanyer (1569-1645). Lock, a confidant of John Knox, published translations of Sermons of John Calvin, Upon the Songe Ezechias Made after He Had Been Sicke (1560) and (as Anne Prowse) of a treatise by the French Huguenot, Jean Taffin, Of the Markes of the Children of God (1590), each prefaced by a substantial dedication to a noblewoman and followed by original poems. Lanyer, daughter and wife of court musicians and, in her youth...