Women and epistolary agency in early modern culture, 1450-1690 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Description:	xv, 258 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Women and gender in the early modern world Women and gender in the early modern world.
Subject:	English letters -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women authors, English -- 18th century -- Correspondence. Letter writing -- History -- 16th century. Letter writing -- History -- 17th century. English letters -- Women authors. English prose literature -- Women authors. Letter writing. Women authors, English. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Records and correspondence.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10814189

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Other authors / contributors:	Daybell, James, 1972- editor. Gordon, Andrew, 1969- editor.
ISBN:	9781472478269 1472478266
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:	Online version: Women and epistolary agency in early modern culture, 1450-1690. Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2016 9781472478276

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Abbreviations and conventions
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Living letters: Re-reading correspondence and women's letters
Part I. Objects of study: Constructing women's letters
2. What they wrote: Early Tudor aristocratic women, 1450-1550
3. 'By the queen': Collaborative authorship in scribal correspondence of Queen Elizabeth I
4. The materiality of early modern women's letters
Part II. Voices of authority: Letters of counsel and advice
5. Women as counsellors in sixteenth-century England: The letters of Lady Anne Bacon and Lady Elizabeth Russell
6. The rhetoric of medical authority in Lady Katherine Ranelagh's letters
7. John Evelyn, Elizabeth Carey, and the trials of pious friendship
8. 'Be plyeabell to all good counseh": Lady Brilliana Barley's advice letter to her son
Part III. Networks and negotiations: The social relations of correspondence
9. Making friends with Elizabeth in the letters of Roger Ascham
10. Irish women's letters, 1641-1653
11. Recovering agency in the epistolary traffic of Frances, Countess of Essex and Jane Daniell
12. Quaker correspondence: Religious identity and communication networks in the interregnum Atlantic World
Postscript
13. New directions in early modern women's letters: WEMLO's challenges and possibilities
Select Bibliography
Index

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