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Article: Wife and window in Arcadia: re-envisioning the ideal.(Philip Sidney's 'New Arcadia')(Critical Essay)
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- March 22, 2002
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In February of 1608, Margaret Ferne-seede, the window of a London tailor, was executed at Saint George's field for the murder of her husband. It was reported that Margaret, upon hearing of his death, demanded to be brought to the scene of the crime where, after viewing her husband's bloody, maggot-infested body, expressed no visible sign of emotion; instead, she dryly demanded "whether his throat were cut or [whether] he had cut his own throat" (Araignement 1608, n.p.) When asked by an astonished acquaintance why "the loss of a good husband [is] so slightly to be regarded," she coolly responded: "Tut sir, mine eyes are ill already and I must now preserve them to mend my ...
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