Josephine A. Roberts(1948--1996) was the William A. Read Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University. She published and lectured widely on Renaissance literature, with more and more emphasis on literature by women. Her numerous fellowships and awards included -- perhaps most significantly -- a National Endowment for the Humanities Editions Grant from 1989--1991, supporting work on her painstakingly annotated edition of Part I of Lady Mary Wroth's mammoth prose romance, The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania (Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1996). Since this was the first edition of this text since its original appearance in 1621, this is perhaps the publication for which Professor Roberts is best known. Among her other numerous publications are: Richard II: An Annotated Bibliography and Architectonic Knowledge in the New Arcadia: Sir Philip Sidney's Use of the Heroic Journey. Selections from The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth were published in the Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Josephine A. Roberts(1948--1996) was the William A. Read Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University. She published and lectured widely on Renaissance literature, with more and more emphasis on literature by women. Her numerous fellowships and awards included -- perhaps most significantly -- a National Endowment for the Humanities Editions Grant from 1989--1991, supporting work on her painstakingly annotated edition of Part I of Lady Mary Wroth's mammoth prose romance, The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania (Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1996). Since this was the first edition of this text since its original appearance in 1621, this is perhaps the publication for which Professor Roberts is best known. Among her other numerous publications are: Richard II: An Annotated Bibliography and Architectonic Knowledge in the New Arcadia: Sir Philip Sidney's Use of the Heroic Journey. Selections from The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth were published in the Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Josephine A. Roberts(1948--1996) was the William A. Read Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University. She published and lectured widely on Renaissance literature, with more and more emphasis on literature by women. Her numerous fellowships and awards included -- perhaps most significantly -- a National Endowment for the Humanities Editions Grant from 1989--1991, supporting work on her painstakingly annotated edition of Part I of Lady Mary Wroth's mammoth prose romance, The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania (Medieval and Renaissance Texts Society, 1996). Since this was the first edition of this text since its original appearance in 1621, this is perhaps the publication for which Professor Roberts is best known. Among her other numerous publications are: Richard II: An Annotated Bibliography and Architectonic Knowledge in the New Arcadia: Sir Philip Sidney's Use of the Heroic Journey. Selections from The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth were published in the Norton Anthology of English Literature.