This book examines the way in which early modern women writers conceived of grief and the relationship between the dead and the living.

This book answers three simple questions. First, what mistaken assumptions do we make about the early modern period when we ignore women's literary contribution

"Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance anatomizes the era's powerful but troubling links between the forgettable dead and the living mourners who a

Featuring entries composed by leading international scholars, The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature presents comprehensive coverage of all aspects

Did women have a Renaissance? Over the last decade much of the most eminent and significant scholarship in Renaissance studies has attempted to answer this ques