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**Margaret Ferguson** (Ph. D. Yale) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California-Davis. She is the author of _Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France (_ 2003) and _Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry_ (1984). Ferguson is coeditor of _Feminism in Time; Women, Property_ , _and the Letters of the Law; Literacies in Early Modern England_ ; and a critical edition of Elizabeth Cary's _Tragedy of Mariam._ Professor Ferguson has served as president of the Modern Language Association and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.