Translation was a critical mode of discourse for early modern writers Gifting Translation in Early Modern England Women Writers and the Politics of Authorship examines the intersection of translation and the culture of gift giving in early modern England arguing that this intersection allowed women to subvert dominant modes of discourse through acts of linguistic and inter semiotic translation and conventions of gifting The book considers four early modern translators Mary Bassett Jane Lumley Jane Seager and Esther Inglis These women negotiate the rhetorics of translation and gift culture in order to articulate political and religious affiliations and beliefs in their carefully crafted manuscript gift books This book offers a critical lens through which to read early modern translations in relation to the materiality of early modern gift culture