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Lanyer was born five years after Shakespeare, into Elizabethan England, and lived through the reign of Elizabeth, James and Charles, and died at the age of 76.

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Emilia Lanier (also spelled Aemilia Lanyer) (1569–1645), née Bassano, was the first Englishwoman to assert herself as a professional poet.

English poet, born in Bishopsgate London.

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Literary Biography

Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was born to Margaret Johnson and Baptista Basano. She would become a well known woman and poet years after she published a volume of religious poems in 1611.

She grew up in the height of Elizabethan power but lived her adult life under the reign of James I during his move towards a strictly patriarchal society.

While she may or may not have been Shakespeare's Dark Lady, Lanyer was most definitely the first professional woman poet in the English language.

Aemilia Lanyer was an influential poet because she was the first English woman to have her book of poems, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, published. This book challenged the thoughts on gender and ideology of the time.

Little is known about Lanyer’s family or her life.

There are multiple leads in her family tree and even their religious background. A.L. Rowse believes Lanyer’s family was actually Jewish based on records he found in the Italian town of Basano, where Lanyer’s family came from (Pacheco 134).

Rowse is not in the majority though; most critics believe her family was Protestant because her writing appears to be strongly