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Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. James Daybell

    1. University of Reading, UK

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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • James Daybell
    Pages 1-15

  3. Reaction, Consolation and Redress in the Letters of the Paston Women

    • Roger Dalrymple
    Pages 16-28

  4. Letter-Writing by English Noblewomen in the Early Fifteenth Century

    • Jennifer C. Ward
    Pages 29-41

  5. Commanding Communications: the Fifteenth-Century Letters of the Stonor Women

    • Alison Truelove
    Pages 42-58

  6. Female Literacy and the Social Conventions of Women’s Letter-Writing in England, 1540–1603

    • James Daybell
    Pages 59-76

  7. Deference and Defiance in Women’s Letters of the Thynne Family: the Rhetoric of Relationships

    • Alison Wall
    Pages 77-93

  8. Fighting for Family in a Patronage Society: the Epistolary Armoury of Anne Newdigate (1574–1618)

    • Vivienne Larminie
    Pages 94-108

  9. ‘How Subject to Interpretation’: Lady Arbella Stuart and the Reading of Illness

    • Sara Jayne Steen
    Pages 109-126

  10. Tudor and Stuart Women: their Lives through their Letters

    • Rosemary O’Day
    Pages 127-142

  11. Patriarchy, Puritanism and Politics: the Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley (1598–1643)

    • Jacqueline Eales
    Pages 143-158

  12. ‘Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world’: Letter-Writing in Early Modern English Convents

    • Claire Walker
    Pages 159-176

  13. Gentle Companions: Single Women and their Letters in Late Stuart England

    • Susan Whyman
    Pages 177-193

  14. ‘Begging pardon for all mistakes or errors in this writeing I being a woman & doing itt myselfe’: Family Narratives in some Early Eighteenth-Century Letters

    • Anne Laurence
    Pages 194-206

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 207-213
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About this book

This landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century. It is the first book to deal comprehensively with women's letter writing during the Late Medieval and Early Modern period and shows that this was a larger and more socially diversified area of female activity than has generally been assumed. The essays, contributed by many of the leading researchers active in the field, illustrate women's engagement in various activities, both literary and political, social and religious.

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'...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

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Reading, UK

    James Daybell

About the editor

ROGER DALRYMPLE Rosemary Woolf Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Somerville College, Oxford JACQUELINE EALES Reader, Canterbury Christ Church University College VIVIENNE LARMINIE Research Editor ANNE LAURENCE Senior Lecturer in History, Open University ROSEMARY O'DAY Professor of History and Director of the Charles Booth Centre, Open University SARA JAYNE STEEN Professor and Chair of English, Montana State University ALISON TRUELOVE Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London CLAIRE WALKER Lecturer, Department of History, University of Newcastle ALISON WALL Lecturer in Modern History, Christ Church, Oxford JENNIFER C. WARD Senior Lecturer in History, Goldsmith's College, University of London SUSAN E. WHYMAN PhD, Princeton University

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