Patricia Phillippy. Women Death and...

Patricia Phillippy. Women Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2002 311 pp ISBN 0-521-81489-8 $6000

Biographers have protracted understood the way in which the display of death can corroborate the themes of a subject's identity. Patricia Phillippy's focus in her Women Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England is rather different. Here it is the experience of mourning rather than dying which is constitutive of identity, particularly female identity. Phillippy discusses the ways in which grieving in post-reformation England was