Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England.
This book represents the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period so far undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and non-political. Based on over 3,000 man...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book represents the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period so far undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and non-political. Based on over 3,000 manuscript letters, it shows that letter-writing was a larger and more socially diversified area of female activity than has been hitherto assumed. In that letters constitute the largest body ofextant sixteenth-century women's writing, the book initiates a reassessment of women's education and literacy in t. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (343 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191531897 0191531898 9780199259915 0199259917 |