The research of the last two decades has shown that English Renaissance women writers were profoundly intertextual: their innovations and voices were explicitly networked with other female and male writers, and they generated readerly communities in equally social and interdependent terms. These female authors were reading, translating, revising, redirecting, and reviving the literary modes of their moment, often in order to generate a new, feminized, public counter-discourse. Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) and Rachel Speght’s A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617) are important examples of this dynamic; both create commanding female speakers who posit, lead, and defend an imagined collective of women by repurposing specific popular literary trends. Reinventing particular literary modes within their prefaces and dedications, Lanyer and Speght develop new kinds of intertextual politics to support their women readers.