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Author:   Dr Andrew Gordon ,  Professor James Daybell ,  Professor Allyson M Poska ,  Professor Abby Zanger
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Ashgate Publishing Limited
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781472478276

ISBN 10:   1472478274
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   28 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: Living letters: the subject and object of women's correspondence, James Daybell and Andrew Gordon. Objects of Study: Constructing Women's Letters: What they wrote: early Tudor aristocratic women, 1450-1550, Barbara J. Harris; By the queen: collaborative authorship in scribal correspondence of Queen Elizabeth I, Melanie Evans; The materiality of early modern women's letters, James Daybell. Voices of Authority: Letters of Counsel and Advice: Women as counsellors in 16th-century England: the letters of Lady Anne Bacon and Lady Elizabeth Russell, Gemma Allen; The rhetoric of medical authority in Lady Katherine Ranelagh's Letters, Michelle DiMeo; John Evelyn, Elizabeth Carey, and the trials of pious friendship, Cedric Brown; `Be plyeabell to all good Counsell': Lady Brilliana Harley's advice letter to her son, Johanna Harris Tyler. Networks and Negotiations: The Social Relations of Correspondence: Making friends with Elizabeth in the letters of Roger Ascham, Rachel McGregor; Irish women's letters, 1641-1653, Marie-Louise Coolahan; Recovering agency in the epistolary traffic of Frances, Countess of Essex and Jane Daniell, Andrew Gordon; Quaker correspondence: religious identity and communication networks in the interregnum Atlantic world', Marjon Ames. Postscript: New directions in early modern women's letters: WEMLO's challenges and possibilities, Kim McLean-Fiander and James Daybell; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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James Daybell is Professor of Early Modern British History at the University of Plymouth, UK. Andrew Gordon is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

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