Miller, Shannon.

Mirrours More Then One: Edmund Spenser and Faa;

Male Authority in the Seventeenth Century. Worldmaking Spenser in
the Early Modern Age. Eds. Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman.
Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2000. Print.
Shannon Miller suggests Lanyer directs her texts dedication to a multiplicity of
patrons because she divides the form of influence each woman has on the text,
manipulating the superior class status of the dedicatees to her advantage, wit the effect
that different women, though most particularly Queen Anne and Margaret, Countess of
Cumberland, appear at moments to be the primary patron (Miller 137-8) (Sondergard
157).