Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England

by James Daybell

Book Overview

Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England represents one of the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period to be 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199259917
• ISBN13: 9780199259915
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"