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Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England (Hardcover, New)
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Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England (Hardcover, New)
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This book represents the most comprehensive study of women's
letters and letter-writing during the early modern period so far
undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways
of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and
non-political. Based on over 3,000 manuscript letters, it shows
that letter-writing was a larger and more socially diversified area
of female activity than has been hitherto assumed. In that letters
constitute the largest body of extant sixteenth-century women's
writing, the book initiates a reassessment of women's education and
literacy in the period. As indicators of literacy, letters yield
physical evidence of rudimentary writing activity and abilities,
document "higher" forms of female literacy, and highlight women's
mastery of formal rhetorical and epistolary conventions. The book
also stresses that letters are unparalleled as intimate and
immediate records of family relationships, and as media for
personal and self-reflective forms of female expression. Read as
documents that inscribe social and gender relations, letters shed
light on the complex range of women's personal relationships, as
female power and authority fluctuated, negotiated on an individual
basis. Furthermore, correspondence highlights the important
political roles played by early modern women. Female letter-writers
were integral in cultivating and maintaining patronage and kinship
networks; they were active as suitors for crown favor, and operated
as political intermediaries and patrons in their own right, using
letters to elicit influence. Letters thus help to locate differing
forms of female power within the family, locality and occasionally
on the widerpolitical stage, and offer invaluable primary evidence
from which to reconstruct the lives of early modern women.
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