is an Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University and the author of The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment: Print, Performance, and Gender. She is writing a book on masques in Shakespeare.
Collection Connections: Flora Carr’s 'Tower' and the Real Wives (and Maids) of Lochleven
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We revisit Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich’s March 2025 presentation as part of our Folger Book Club discussion of Flora Carr’s The Tower. Explore Folger collection items that relate to the novel.
A guest post by Elizabeth Kolkovich In the summer of 1602, Alice Egerton, Countess of Derby, did something rather extraordinary. When Queen Elizabeth I visited her house, she brought to the forefront the female patrons who usually remained behind the…
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