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Early modern women's letter writing, 1450-1700

'...a valuable contribution to the fields of women's history, early modern British history, and the history of language...' - Carrie F. Klaus, Sixteenth Century Journal.

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Group Author: Daybell, James.
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Early modern literature in history
Subjects:
English letters > Women authors.
English letters > Women authors > History and criticism.
English letters > History and criticism > Early modern, 1500-1700.
English letters > History and criticism > Middle English, 1100-1500.
Women and literature > History > 17th century > Great Britain.
Women and literature > History > 16th century > Great Britain.
Women and literature > History > To 1500 > Great Britain.
Letter writing > History.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval > Middle English > c 1600 to c 1700. > c 1600 to c 1700. > c 1600 to c 1700.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > Middle English > c 1600 to c 1700. > c 1600 to c 1700. > c 1600 to c 1700.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 > Middle English > c 1600 to c 1700. > c 1600 to c 1700. > c 1600 to c 1700.
Gender studies: women > Middle English > c 1600 to c 1700. > c 1600 to c 1700. > c 1600 to c 1700.
Literature.
English letters > Women authors > History and criticism > Early modern, 1500-1700
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230598669
Summary: '...a valuable contribution to the fields of women's history, early modern British history, and the history of language...' - Carrie F. Klaus, Sixteenth Century Journal.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780333945797, 2001.
Carrier Form: 232 p.
ISBN: 9780333945797
9780230598669 :
0230598668 :
CLC: I561.076
Contents: List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction-- J.Daybell Reaction, Consolation and Redress in the Letters of the Paston Women-- R.Dalrymple Letter Writing by English Noblewomen in the Early Fifteenth Century-- J.Ward Commanding Communications: The Fifteenth-Century Letters of the Stonor Women-- A.Truelove Female Literary and the Social Conventions of Women's Letter Writing in England, 1540-1603-- J.Daybell Deference and Defiance in Women's Letters of the Thynne Family-- A.Wall Fighting for Family in a Patronage Society: The Epistolary Armoury of Anne Newdigate (1574-1618)-- V.Larminie 'How Subject to Interpretation': Lady Arbella Stuart and the Reading of Illness-- S.J.Steen Tudor and Stuart Women: Their Family Lives Through Their Letters-- R.O'Day Patriarchy, Puritanism and Politics: The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley (1598-1643)-- J.Eales 'Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world': Letter Writing in Early Modern English Convents-- C.Walker Gentle Companions: Single Women and Their Letters in Late-Stuart England-- S.Whyman 'Begging Pardon for all mistakes and errors in this writing I being a women and doing it myself': Family Narratives in Some Early Eighteenth-Century Letters-- A.Laurence Notes and References Index.

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