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Book SynopsisThis landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century.
Trade Review'...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
Table of ContentsList 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
