| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
1. Introduction : rethinking women and politics in early modern England / James Daybell -- 2. Sisterhood, friendship and the power of English aristocratic women, 1450-1550 / Barbara J. Harris -- 3. A rhetoric of requests : genre and linguistic scripts in Elizabethan women's suitors' letters / Lynne Magnusson -- 4. Politics in the Elizabethan privy chamber : Lady Mary Sidney and Kat Ashley / Natalie Mears -- 5. Portingale women and politics in late Elizabethan London / Alan Stewart -- 6. Negotiating favour : the letters of Lady Ralegh / Karen Robertson -- 7. 'Suche newes as on the Quenes hye wayes we have mett' : the news and intelligence networks of Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1527-1608) / James Daybell -- 8. Esther Inglis and the English succession crisis of 1599 / Tricia Bracher -- 9. The Cavendish-Talbot women : playing a high-stakes game / Sara Jayne Steen -- 10. Aristocratic women, power, patronage and family networks at the Jacobean court, 1603-1625 / Helen Payne -- 11. Anne of Denmark and the historical contextualisation of Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII / Susan Frye -- 12. Mothers, lovers and others : royalist women / Jerome de Groot -- 13. Beyond microhistory : the use of women's manuscripts in a widening political arena / Elizabeth Clarke -- 14. Loyal and dutiful subjects : English nuns and Stuart politics / Claire Walker -- 15. Assuming gentility : Thomas Middleton, Mary Carleton and Aphra Behn / Valerie Wayne |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 7, 2017) |
| Subject |
Women -- Political activity -- England -- History
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Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.
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Women -- History -- Modern period, 1600-
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Politics and government
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Women -- Modern period
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Women -- Political activity
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Women -- Renaissance
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Women -- Political activity -- England.
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Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.
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Women -- History -- Modern period, 1600-
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- To 1485.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056869
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056884
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England
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Great Britain
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- To 1485.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Daybell, James, 1972- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781351872331 |
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1351872338 |
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9781315233864 |
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131523386X |
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9781351872324 |
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135187232X |
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