Beilin, Elaine V. Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance.

Princeton:
Princeton UP, 1987. Print.
her considerable knowledge of English poetry, her scriptural reading (Beilin 179).
a familiarity wiit traditional debate material (Beilin 179).
Lanyer includes herself into the community she imagines and creates admiring portraits
of living women praised as the descendants of a redeemed Eve, the daughters of
Jerusalem, and the Virgin (Beilin 182).