In this work, Aemilia Lanyer, the first English woman author to publish a full edition of poems and claim a professional poetic voice, makes powerful assertions on behalf of early modern women through the voice of Pilate’s wife. Defending Eve by way of contrast to the “greater” sin of man in crucifying Christ, Pilate’s wife argues, astoundingly, for women’s right to be the “equals” of men, “free from tyranny.” Lanyer was only one of numerous women authors who wrote and found audiences in the English Renaissance. And yet, for all their bold and assertive voices, most early modern women authors remain relatively unknown to the twenty-first-century public, represented mostly in partial or fragmented view, their shaping contributions as world-makers disregarded, distorted, or erased.