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Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell, The Writings of an English Sappho. Edited by Patricia Phillippy with translations from Greek and Latin by Jaime Goodrich.

This edition publishes Russell’s writings for the first time, offering fully annotated texts of correspondence, epitaphs, ceremonies and funerals. All texts are transcriptions by the editor of primary sources which were extensive, complex, and difficult to access. Manuscript holdings in the British Library, The National Archives, Le Bibliothèque nationale, and College of Arms Library, among others, were used. Inscriptions and new translations of Russell’s Greek and Latin epitaphs (27 pages by Jaime Goodrich) are the first based on direct examination of extant monuments in London and Berkshire. The text of Russell’s only printed volume (1605) was transcribed from the sole surviving copy in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

This edition publishes Russell’s writings for the first time, offering fully annotated texts of correspondence, epitaphs, ceremonies and funerals. All texts are transcriptions by the editor of primary sources which were extensive, complex, and difficult to access. Manuscript holdings in the British Library, The National Archives, Le Bibliothèque nationale, and College of Arms Library, among others, were used. Inscriptions and new translations of Russell’s Greek and Latin epitaphs (27 pages by Jaime Goodrich) are the first based on direct examination of extant monuments in London and Berkshire. The text of Russell’s only printed volume (1605) was transcribed from the sole surviving copy in the Folger Shakespeare Library.