In early modern England, women were highly visible as patrons and dedicatees, exerting a powerful influence on the social, cultural, and religious landscape. Some women supported authors whose tastes and talents aligned with their own, demonstrating their intimate engagement with the creation and circulation, as well as the publication and reception, of writing. This entry first explores the dedications in which male writers sang women’s praises and attempted to showcase or elicit their support. It goes on to demonstrate women’s influence as patrons of writing, especially literary writing, including unusual evidence of payments made in return for dedications and gifts of books. The entry shows how a small number of women writers presented themselves publicly as clients and closes with an account of how some women authors navigated the expanding “Marketplace of Print,” while also being presented to readers and prospective purchasers as saleable commodities.