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'What distinguishes this book is that it moves the focus away from publication, and toward those practices more easily lost to the historical record ... an important contribution to our knowledge of the work and lives of early modern women scholars.' Marguerite Deslauriers, The Review of Politics 'Pal's focus on this group of remarkable women can only be commended, and she convincingly demonstrates that they were as self-conscious as contemporary male scholars in seeking out possible mentors and, in turn, offering to fill the same role for younger women ... Pal's biography of these women as a group is a useful and interesting contribution to the study not only of early modern women writers, but also of the Republic of Letters as a whole.' Joanna Barker, The Seventeenth Century 'Pal's study adds a great deal to our understanding of this Republic. Above all, she demonstrates that these women brought distinct qualities to bear within this community, including a clear sense of collegiality, which found expression in mentoring relationships.' Kenneth Austin, Huguenot Society Journal

'What distinguishes this book is that it moves the focus away from publication, and toward those practices more easily lost to the historical record ... an important contribution to our knowledge of the work and lives of early modern women scholars.' Marguerite Deslauriers, The Review of Politics 'Pal's focus on this group of remarkable women can only be commended, and she convincingly demonstrates that they were as self-conscious as contemporary male scholars in seeking out possible mentors and, in turn, offering to fill the same role for younger women ... Pal's biography of these women as a group is a useful and interesting contribution to the study not only of early modern women writers, but also of the Republic of Letters as a whole.' Joanna Barker, The Seventeenth Century 'Pal's study adds a great deal to our understanding of this Republic. Above all, she demonstrates that these women brought distinct qualities to bear within this community, including a clear sense of collegiality, which found expression in mentoring relationships.' Kenneth Austin, Huguenot Society Journal Pal offers a lively analysis of the intellectual dynamism evident at the exiled court of the Bohemian royal family at The Hague, which under the influence of the erudite Princess Elizabeth became the center of a tightly knit learned society from the 1630s to the 1680s. Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Journal of Interdisciplinary History What distinguishes this book is that it moves the focus away from publication, and toward those practices more easily lost to the historical record ... an important contribution to our knowledge of the work and lives of early modern women scholars. Marguerite Deslauriers, The Review of Politics Pal's focus on this group of remarkable women can only be commended, and she convincingly demonstrates that they were as self-conscious as contemporary male scholars in seeking out possible mentors and, in turn, offering to fill the same role for younger women ... Pal's biography of these women as a group is a useful and interesting contribution to the study not only of early modern women writers, but also of the Republic of Letters as a whole. Joanna Barker, The Seventeenth Century Pal's study adds a great deal to our understanding of this Republic. Above all, she demonstrates that these women brought distinct qualities to bear within this community, including a clear sense of collegiality, which found expression in mentoring relationships. Kenneth Austin, Huguenot Society Journal

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Carol Pal is an Assistant Professor of History at Bennington College, Vermont. She received her Ph.D. in 2007 from Stanford University, California, where her dissertation won the Elizabeth Spilman Rosenfield Dissertation Prize. She has held a number of library fellowships, including a Francis Bacon Foundation fellowship from the Huntington Library and an Ahmanson–Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Clark Library, University of California. Los Angeles; she has also won research fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Association of University Women and the Jacob K. Javits program. The focus of her current research is a reconsideration of the history of the book, using case studies highlighting the phenomenon of corporate scribal publication.

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