1. Rebecca Bushnell, Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003), 148.
2. For more on the role of sameness in grafting prescriptions, see Vin Nardizzi, “Grafted to Falstaffand Compounded with Catherine: Mingling Hal in the Second Tetralogy,”, Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze, ed. Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray, and Will Stockton (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009), 149–169, esp. 154–59.
3. Jacques Derrida, Dissemination, trans. Barbara Johnson (London: Continuum Books, 2004), 389.
4. Our work on the materiality of writing in Wroth owes a profound debt to Juliet Fleming, Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
5. On topicality in the Urania, see Mary Ellen Lamb, Gender and Authorship in the Sidney Circle (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1990), 181–91. For a reading that stresses the relation between women’s secret-sharing and this topical context, see Julie Crawford, “Women’s Secretaries,”, Queer Renaissance Historiography, 111–134, esp. 125–31.