Lives and Afterlives of the Sidney Women Writers
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- ISBN 9781032870991
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Lives and Afterlives of the Sidney Women Writers charts the multifarious connections between the lives and works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561– 1621), and Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth (1587– 1651).
Bringing together essays by renowned experts on the Sidney women and a new generation of scholars, the collection shows how the Sidney women did not so much write about their lives as they lived their lives through their texts, and continue to do so in contemporary reinventions of their lives and works. Engaging with contexts of place, race, literary traditions and aesthetics, including two new creative biofictional accounts, the chapters offer dynamic, mutually illuminating perspectives, showing how literary texts and biography enlighten and complicate each other for mutual enrichment.
The book’s specific illustrations of fluidity and porousness between the Sidney women’s lives and works offer precise, tailor- made interpretations of the varied circumstances which produced the Sidney women writers.
Aurélie Griffin is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature and Translation at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. She specialises in early modern women’s writing and is the author of a monograph entitled La Muse de l’humeur noire. Urania de Lady Mary Wroth, une poetique de la melancolie (2018; shortlisted for the SAES/ AFEA research prize).
Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama at Lancaster University, UK. She has published widely on Shakespearean drama, most recently co-authoring The Arden Encylcopedia of Shakespeare’s Language: Plays and Characters (2025). She has edited and published on early women’s drama and staged productions, including Wroth’s Love’s Victory (2022).
