Abstract
Contents: Epigraph Dedication Preface Contexts and methodologies The public rendering of Margaret Ratcliffe's death Fasting and prayer in A Woman Killed with Kindness: religious salvation and political resistance 'Starved starved': anatomy and food refusal in John Ford's The Broken Heart 'The Maiden neither eate nor drank one morsel or droppe': miracle maidens as colonial objects Epilogue: 'What, sir, ... can I do? I have no appetite' Appendix I: Inscription on the tomb of Margaret Ratcliffe Appendix II: The deaths of Queen Elizabeth I and Lady Arbella Stuart Appendix III: Chronological listing of descriptions of Miracle Maidens, published in England 1589a 1677 Bibliography Index.
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