Early Modern Women Writers Engendering Descent

Marie H. Loughlin is an associate professor of English literature in the department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan. She has published in the areas of early modern women’s writing, drama, concepts of the body, and sexuality.

• Introduction: Living in a Genealogical Age: Women and the Early Modern Cultures of Ancestry 1. Mary Sidney Herbert’s Genealogical Cultures: Family, Household, Community 2. In the Hands of Others: Mary Sidney Herbert as Morientis Imago Philippi 3. Abraham Fraunce’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Ivychurch (1591, 1592) and Mary Sidney Herbert’s Mythographic Genealogical Communities4. Revising Reproduction, Descent, and Midwifery in Thomas Moffet’s The Silkewormes, and their Flies (1599)5. In Her Own Hands: Mary Sidney Herbert’s "To the Angell Spirit of the Most Excellent Sir Philip Sidney"6. Mary Sidney Wroth’s Genealogical Cultures: Family, Household, Community7. In the Hands of Others: Mary Sidney Wroth’s Genealogical Imagining8. Ordinary Remembering, Confusing, and Forgetting in Urania’s Genealogical Archive9. Extraordinary Remembering and Forgetting at the Urania’s Leucadian RockConclusion: Whither Genealogy?