Abstract
While Hutchinson's “Elegies” lament her husband's death, they also struggle to locate her speaker in relation to the family estate and to fashion the speaker as a proper widow. At times, Hutchinson seems to create a female speaker who is a perfect fantasy figure for readers invested in notions of female subordination and dependency: she is an appropriately contained, chaste widow; she cloisters herself, dedicates herself to her husband's memory and downplays her new liberties. Despite this careful self-representation, however, flickers of female desire and agency still emerge in her “Elegies”, and the specter of female ownership haunts her verse. Attending to Hutchinson's self-representations in relation to real property exposes her subtle gestures towards economic agency; indeed, it reveals her desire to be a subject of property.
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