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Elizabeth specialises in the English and Portuguese book trades and, in particular, on the printed religious and political propaganda of these two countries, from c.1480s-1680s. She works the patronage of authors and printers and in the financial aspects of book production, working mainly on 'big books', rather than pamphlet literature; she is interested in prestige editions - in texts and images targeted at elite audiences. She also works on the printing and editing of poetry and drama in England and Portugal.
Elizabeth was a Fellow and College Lecturer, Newnham College, Cambridge (2004-07) and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2004-07). She is currently a convenor of the 'Religious History of England, 1500-1800' seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London. Her first book Patents, Pictures and Patronage: John Day and the Tudor Book Trade was published by Ashgate in August 2008 and her second, with Thomas S. Freeman, is imminent with Cambridge University Press: Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: the Making of John Foxe's "Book of Martyrs". She is currently undertaking research for a book on early modern Anglo-Portuguese patronage and the book trade, and finishing a bibliographic handbook for students of Shakespeare.
Her teaching interests are in book history (particularly the production and reception of religious and political propaganda), editorial theory, early modern culture, and the early modern stage.
Books
Patents, Pictures and Patronage: John Day and the Tudor Book Trade (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008)
Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: the Making of John Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs” with Thomas S. Freeman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009)
Chapters/Articles
 ‘John Foxe, John Day and the Printing of the “Book of Martyrs”’ with Thomas S. Freeman, Lives in Print, eds. Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (London, 2002)
‘The Fleeing Dutchmen? The Influence of Dutch Immigrants on the Print Shop of John Day’, John Foxe: At Home and Abroad, ed. David Loades (Aldershot, 2004)
‘The Michael Wood mystery: William Cecil and the Lincolnshire printing of John Day’ in Sixteenth Century Journal, 25 (2004) 1967-2007'
‘Print, Profit and Propaganda: the Elizabethan Privy Council and the 1570 edition of the “Book of Martyrs”’ with Thomas S. Freeman, Historical Journal, 119 (2004)
Entries on various printers in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004)
Forthcoming:
‘Closing the Books: the problematic printing of the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII in Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (1570)’
in John N. King (ed.), Tudor Books and Readers: Materiality and the Construction of Meaning (forthcoming with
Cambridge University Press, 2009)
‘The impact of print: the perceived worth of the printed word in England, 1476-1575’ in Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker (eds.),
# The Oxford Medieval Handbook (forthcoming with Oxford University Press, 2010)
‘Selectivity and Survival: the role of the codex in early modern England’ in Sas Mays (ed.), Unpacking the Library: Literatures and their Archives, chapter to be submitted by July 2009 (forthcoming with Rodopi Press, 2010)
‘Red Letter Day: Protestant calendars and Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs”, with Thomas S. Freeman, submitted to Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte (forthcoming in Spring 2010)
‘Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs” and its visual representation of Martyrdom from the Early Church to the Lollards’ with Margaret Aston, due to appear online at http://www.johnfoxe.org in Spring 2010
William H. Sherman, Used Books: Marking Reades in Renaissance England for English Historical Review (Autumn, 2009)
R.N. Swanson, Indulgences in Late Medieval England for Church History (Spring, 2010)
Uma análise da exposição ‘Estrelas de papel: livros de astronomia dos séculos XIV a XVIII’ em Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon (2009) for Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (2009)
As editor: 1556-57: The Crucible of Confessional Conflict (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming)
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