The Grief of Miss Jane Barker: A Seventeenth-Century Anatomy

Kaitlin Pontzer//There may be no wrong way to grieve, but the grief of Jane Barker was particularly odd.  When her beloved brother died in 1675, Barker wrote an anatomical poem to commemorate his passing. To be precise, she wrote “A Farewell to POETRY, with a Long Digression on ANATOMY,” in which she was guided on…