Patricia Phillippy is Professor of English Literature at Kingston University, London. She has published widely in early modern literature and culture, with a special focus on women's writing. Her books include Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England (Cambridge, 2002), and Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture (2006). She has edited the writings of Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell as The Writings of An English Sappho (2011), and A History of Early Modern Women's Writing (Cambridge, 2018).

'… the book … offers an impressive if impressionistic account of the unwieldy culture of commemoration in early modern England. In this work, we have a series of leitmotifs - mourning, loss, collection, remembrance, forgetting, curation - that echo one another in frequently surprising ways as they are juxtaposed, ultimately providing an important contribution to the study of a fraught memorial culture in the period.' Andrew Griffin, Early Modern Literary Studies

• Introduction – 'An amber casket'; Part I. 'Signes of Remembrance': 1. 'A Mousoleum for a flie': Sidney Montagu and the sacramental sign; 2. Wondrous work: crafting remembrance in the Montagu archive; 3. Innogen's needle: remembrance and romance in Cymbeline; Part II. 'Monuments of Antiquitie'; 4. 'The grave is but a cabinet': remembrance and recreation in post-reformation London; 5. Shakespearean reliquaries: Pericles and the ark of wonder; 6. 'Chain'd up in alabaster': awakening remembrance in The Winter's Tale and Comus; Conclusion – 'many worlds fantastic framed'.