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The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by
contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers
interested in bringing the stories of early modern women to modern
audiences. It also pays attention to the historical women creators
themselves, who, be they saints or midwives, visual artists or
poets and playwrights, stand out for their roles as active
practitioners of their own arts and for their accomplishments as
creators. Whether they delivered infants or governed as monarchs,
or produced embroideries, letters, paintings or poems, their
visions, the authors argue, have endured across the centuries. As
the title of the volume suggests, the essays gathered here
participate in a wider conversation about the relation between
biography, historical fiction, and the growing field of biofiction
(that is, contemporary fictionalizations of historical figures),
and explore the complicated interconnections between celebrating
early modern women and perpetuating popular stereotypes about them.
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.
This collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the array of women's alliances in early modern England. The interdisciplinary essays, combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism,queer theory, and studies of race, and consider the historical traces of women's connections in a variety of communities from cities, households, and court and classes of women from vagabonds to queens.
This perceptive and innovative study of one of the most visible and powerful women in European history offers an unusual focus: Queen Elizabeth I's difficulty in constructing her power in a patriarchal society. Through the examination of three crises of allegorical representation in her reign this study traces by literary and historical means the queen's struggle to retain control over the iconography of both her physical self and her political domain.
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