About
Georgianna Ziegler is interested in early modern women and their relationship to literature, art, and history, and to women as book owners and annotators. She has worked and published especially on Elizabeth I, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Lady Ann Clifford, and calligrapher Esther Inglis. Education
University of Pennsylvania, MA, Ph.D.
Drexel University, MS in Library Science Publications
Selected recent and forthcoming:
“Esther Inglis.” Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World. (Forthcoming)
Created new website on Esther Inglis: https://estheringliscreativewoman.wordpress.com
“Paper Portraits: the Self-Fashioning of Esther Inglis,” ARTHerstory Blog, June 30, 2020
“Early Women Buying Books: the Evidence,” The Collation, June 9, 2020
“Patterns in Women’s Book Ownership: 1550-1700.” Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. Ed. Valerie Wayne. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
“Lady Anne Clifford Reads John Selden.” Early Modern English Marginalia. Ed. Katherine Acheson. Routledge, 2019. pp. 134-154.
“Curating Mary Wroth.” In ReReading Mary Wroth. Ed. Katherine R. Larson and Naomi Miller. Palgrave/MacMillan, 2015. pp.225-237.
“Historical Resources for Students of Early English Literature.” In Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives. Ed. Heidi Brayman and Ian Moulton. MLA, 2015. pp. 221-238.
Projects
Finishing a long essay on the self-portraits of Esther Inglis that sets them within the traditions of printed author portraits and painted miniatures.
Working on background for an essay on the Protestant French recipients of Inglis’s manuscripts.
Encyclopedia entry on manuscript resources for the study of early modern women. Memberships
Bibliographical Society, London
Modern Language Association
Renaissance Society of America
Shakespeare Association of America
SHARP
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
