Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Series Editor’s Preface x
5. Introduction: Friendship, Gender, Politics 1
6. Part I: Friendship and Betrayal
7. 1 Indemnity for Enemies, Oblivion for Friends: Changing Political Allegiances in the English Civil Wars 27
8. 2 “Obligation here is injury”: Exemplary Friendship in Katherine Philips’s Coterie 69
9. 3 The Garden of Epicurus and the Garden of Eden: Friendship’s Counsel in De rerum natura and Order and Disorder 114
10. Part II: The Rewritten Legacy
11. 4 “Women, like princes, fi nd no real friends”: The Manuscript Tradition and Katherine Philips’s Reputation 153
12. 5 Honoring Friendship’s Shadows: Marriage and Political Reputation in Lucy Hutchinson’s Writings 189
13. 6 Covert Politics and Separatist Women’s Friendship: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell 222
14. Bibliography 260
15. Index 282