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Learning and Literacy in Female Hands, 1520-1698 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Learning and Literacy in Female Hands, 1520-1698 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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Focusing on the unusual learning and schooling of women in early
modern England, this study explores how and why women wrote, the
myriad forms their alphabets could assume, and the shape which
vernacular literacy acquired in their hands. Elizabeth Mazzola
argues that early modern women's writings often challenged the
lessons of their male teachers, since they were designed to conceal
rather than reveal women's learning and schooling. Employed by
early modern women with great learning and much art, such difficult
or 'resistant' literacy organized households and administrative
offices alike, and transformed the broader history of literacy in
the West. Chapters treat writers like Jane Sharp, Anne Southwell,
Jane Seager, Martha Moulsworth, Elizabeth Tudor, and Katherine Parr
alongside images of women writers presented by Shakespeare and
Sidney. Managing women's literacy also concerned early modern
statesmen and secretaries, writing masters and grammarians, and
Mazzola analyzes how both the emerging vernacular and a developing
bureaucratic state were informed by these contests over women's
hands.
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