Bethany Bear

Bethany Bear is assistant professor of English at the University of Mobile in south Alabama. Her scholarly work focuses on nineteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature, and she blogs at bethanyslettersfromhome.blogpost.com

Domestic Arts15 February, 2013

To Feel Even as I Once Knew

By Bethany Bear

In Book I of the Consolation of Philosophy, Lady Philosophy visits her suffering disciple as a bright-eyed woman with a remarkable outfit: “Her garments…