Kinnamon: Publications

Many of my publications have resulted from collaboration with Margaret Hannay (Siena College) and Michael Brennan (University of Leeds):

The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke. Ed. with Margaret Hannay and Michael Brennan. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. Winner of the 1998 Josephine A. Roberts Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.

A Sidney Chronology, 1554-1654. With Michael Brennan. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003.

Domestic Politics and Family Absence: The Correspondence (1588-1621) of Robert Sidney, First Earl of Leicester, and Barbara Gamage Sidney. Ed. with Margaret Hannay and Michael Brennan. Ashgate, 2005.

Selected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke. Ed. with Margaret Hannay and Michael Brennan. MRTS, 2005.

The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney. Ed. with Hannibal Hamlin, Margaret Hannay, and Michael Brennan. Oxford World's Classics, forthcoming.

The Correspondence of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester. Ed. with Margaret Hannay and Michael Brennan. Ashgate, forthcoming.

I have also published essays in books and journals. These are some of the more recent:

• "Recent Studies in Renaissance English Manuscripts (1996-2006)." English Literary Renaissance 38 (2008): 356-83.
• "Notes on Dating the Correspondence of Robert Sidney, First Earl of Leicester." Sidney Journal 25 (2007): 67-81.
• "Robert Sidney and the Italic Hand." Sidney Journal 25 (2007): 83-93.
• "The Sidney Family Correspondence during Robert Sidney's Continental Tour, 1579-1581." With Robert Shephard. Sidney Journal 25 (2007): 43-66.
• "Robert Sidney, 'Mr. Johnson,' and Penshurst." With Michael Brennan. Notes and Queries 50 (2003): 403-37.
• Robert Sidney, the Dudleys, and Queen Elizabeth." With Michael Brennan and Margaret Hannay. Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman. Ed. Carole Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett-Graves. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. 20-42.
• "Revisioning the Sacred Text." Sidney Journal 17.1 (1999): 53-77. With Debra K. Rienstra. Reprinted as "Circulating the Sidney-Pembroke Psalter." Women's Writing and the Circulation of Idea. Ed. George Justice and Nathan Tinker. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 50-72.
• “Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.” Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Forthcoming.
• "God's 'Scholer': The Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes and Beza's Psalmorum Davidis . . . Libri Quinque." Notes and Queries 44.1 (1997): 85-88. [Evidence of both the extent of the countess's education and the scholarly approach she took toward composing her verse paraphrases of the Psalms.]
• "Recent Studies in Renaissance English Manuscripts." English Literary Renaissance 27.2 (1997): 281-326. [An extensive bibliographical survey I was invited to prepare as an introduction to books and essays and other resources on Renaissance English manuscripts published since 1945.]
• "The Peniarth Manuscript of the Sidney Psalms." National Library of Wales Journal 28 (1993-1994): 279-84. [The first report of a manuscript of the countess of Pembroke's most important work, compared with the other sixteen extant manuscripts of the Psalmes begun by the countess's brother, Sir Philip Sidney, and completed by her about 1594.]
• "The Sidney Psalms: The Penshurst and Tixall Manuscripts." English Manuscript Studies 2 (1990): 139-61. [A detailed examination of two of the most important of the Psalmes manuscripts, both in private collections. The Penshurst manuscript is the copy-text for the critical edition I have helped prepare.]

My verse has appeared in Christianity and Literature and Cornerstone. I have also published book reviews.

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