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Pens and Needles - Women's Textualities in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Pens and Needles - Women's Textualities in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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The Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or the
middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and
painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and
Needles is the first book to examine all these forms as
interrelated products of self-fashioning and communication. Because
early modern people saw verbal and visual texts as closely related,
Susan Frye discusses the connections between the many forms of
women's textualities, including notes in samplers, alphabets both
stitched and penned, initials, ciphers, and extensive texts like
needlework pictures, self-portraits, poetry, and pamphlets, as well
as commissioned artwork, architecture, and interior design. She
examines works on paper and cloth by such famous figures as
Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Bess of Hardwick, as well as
the output of journeywomen needleworkers and miniaturists Levina
Teerlinc and Esther Inglis, and their lesser-known sisters in the
English colonies of the New World. Frye shows how traditional
women's work was a way for women to communicate with one another
and to shape their own identities within familial, intellectual,
religious, and historical traditions. Pens and Needles offers
insights into women's lives and into such literary texts as
Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline and Mary Sidney Wroth's Urania.
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