This essay discusses the various challenges confronting any editor wishing to bring a work into the mainstream of the academic community and perhaps beyond. I created an abridgement of Mary Wroth’s romance The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania because its length (nearly 600,000 words) prevented its regular presentation in classrooms, and I wrote an introduction to attract more readers. In the process, I pushed back against a recent devaluation of the biographical by the New Textualism. Rather than restricting her to the narrow space of the domestic sphere, Wroth’s identity as a Sidney thrust her into the faction of Sidney-Herberts advocating Protestant causes in Europe. What is our role as teachers and editors? How much guidance should we offer? This chapter discusses these and other issues that arise as early women’s texts emerge from the archives to engage a more general and diverse readership.