About the Author

Janel Mueller is the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the Department of English Language and Literature and the College at the University of Chicago. She is coeditor of four volumes of the writings of Elizabeth I: Collected Works; Autograph Compositions and Foreign Language Originals; Translations, 1544-1589; and Translations, 1592-1598, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews

"[T]his meticulous volume will prove vital to historians, literary scholars, and others interested in early modern women writers. It is unlikely to be superseded. Highly recommended."--C. Baker "Choice"

"Early modernists will be long indebted to Janel Mueller for her sumptuous edition of Katherine Parr's Complete Works and Correspondence."-- "Studies in English Literature 1500-1900"

"Scholars and researchers of the Tudor period will find a rich resource in Katherine Parr."-- "Anglican and Episcopal History"

"In this much-needed and meticulously annotated edition of the devotional writings and correspondence of Katherine Parr, Janel Mueller recovers the voice of an important Tudor author whose writings have received little attention from readers over the centuries. The first woman to publish books in English under her own name, she engaged in self-revelatory reflection that offers unique insight into the mentality of an English queen. Learned in multiple languages, she appears to have molded the character of her stepdaughter who later reigned as Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen of England. Of particular interest within this exemplary edition are two documents written in Katherine Parr's own hand, for which Professor Mueller provides old-spelling transcriptions that supplement the modernized texts of her complete oeuvre."--John N. King, The Ohio State University

"Janel Mueller's edition of the writings of Queen Katherine Parr makes a perfect bookend to the earlier edition of the writings of Queen Elizabeth I, who owed much, as this superbly collected volume shows, to the complicated example of her brave and prudent stepmother."--Maureen Quilligan, Duke University

"There has been no full annotated edition of Katherine Parr's works before and it is high time that we had one. This new edition is a huge accomplishment, and many scholars, from those interested in women's studies to those exploring Tudor politics to religious historians, will want to consult it."--Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College, Columbia University