Helen HackettDr Helen Hackett teaches English Literature at University College London. She was previously a tutor and research fellow at Oxford University. She is the author of Virgin Mother, Maiden Queen: Elizabeth I and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1994), and o a number of articles on women as readers and writers of romance in the Renaissance. She is a contributor to the Cambridge Companion to Women and Literature 1500-1700 (forthcoming). Read More Read Less