Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Patricia Phillippy. Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 311. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81489-8.

Death, and its literary outcrop, elegy, has long been noted as one authorizing stance for women speakers and writers in early modern England. This derives, in part, from women's multiple roles in the rites of death, as mourners, as those enjoined to care for bodies, and as their families' relicts, responsible for the paternal legacy in every sense. It is surprising then that scholars of the early modern period have had to ...

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