Mini Bio
The small caskets were pre-nuptial gifts, cradling a brooch or a gold chain, an ivory needle case. Those at least must have spoken of love.
But the large bridal caskets like the one whose meter-length
panel sits atop Fay’s lab bench—those were symbols of commerce, families aligning through marriage and climbing the social ladder of Renaissance Italy. They held the bride’s linens and her trousseau and were carried through the streets to her new home as part of the wedding pageantry. As one scholar wryly noted, there was no romance in Renaissance marriages.
Just as there is none in hers.
--from “Dragon’s Blood,” a story
Mini Bio
The small caskets were pre-nuptial gifts, cradling a brooch or a gold chain, an ivory needle case. Those at least must have spoken of love.
But the large bridal caskets like the one whose meter-length
panel sits atop Fay’s lab bench—those were symbols of commerce, families aligning through marriage and climbing the social ladder of Renaissance Italy. They held the bride’s linens and her trousseau and were carried through the streets to her new home as part of the wedding pageantry. As one scholar wryly noted, there was no romance in Renaissance marriages.
Just as there is none in hers.
--from “Dragon’s Blood,” a story
Writer—
Jacqueline Ariail has published literary fiction as well as literary criticism in national magazines and literary journals.
Editor/Consultant
Editor/Consultant
Editor—
With a Princeton B.A. and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, Ariail has taught academic and creative writing at the University of Richmond, NC State University and Duke University, working with undergraduate and graduate students as well as fellow writers to edit their work.
Learning Consultant—
Seventeen years experience in individual learning consultations for college undergraduates at Duke University’s Academic Resource Center.