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Allison MArgAret Bigelow University of Virginia Gendered Language and the Science of Colonial Silk In May 1652, Virginia Ferrar conducted an experiment in her family garden at Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, to determine t-he opti mal growing conditions for silkworms. Her father carefully chronicled her methods and results in a letter that he sent to Samuel Hartlib, a Polish émigré and educational reformer who published the letter as the Rare and New Discovery of a Speedy Way, . . . Found Out by a Young Lady in England, . . . for the feeding of Silk- worms . . . on the Mulberry- Tree Leaves in Virginia. The religioscientific paradox of a cultivated commodity whose lowly o - ri gins could assume such heights of value—these were emblematic insects whose foul excretions were spun into sensuous silks—appealed to mid- seventeenth- century reformers who sought to refashion the nature- of En glish empire at the height of Oliver Cromwell’s western design. For these writers, some of whom supported the Stuart monarchy, some of whom were aligned with the Protectorate, and most of whom were members of Hartlib’s loosely organized network of correspondents, silk represented the type of material good and spiritual symbol
Early American Literature – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jun 27, 2014
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