Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance anatomizes the era's powerful but troubling links between the forgettable dead and the living mourners who are implicated in the same oblivion. Elizabeth Hodgson examines four major women writers from 1570 to 1670 whose writings construct these difficult bonds between the spectral dead and the liminal mourner.

This book examines the way in which early modern women writers conceived of grief and the relationship between the dead and the living.