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1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-341) and index. |
| Contents |
Maidservants of London : sisterhoods of kinship and labor / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Women, work, and plays in an English medieval town / Mary Wack -- Women's networks and the female vagrant : a hard case / Jodi Mikalachki -- "No good thing ever comes out of it" : male expectation and female alliance in Dekker and Webster's Westward ho / Simon Morgan-Russell -- "P[ar]cell of murdereing bitches" : female relationships in an eighteenth-century slaveholding household / Kathleen M. Brown -- Appropriation of pleasure in The magnetic lady / Helen Ostovich -- Female alliance and the construction of homoeroticism in As you like it and Twelfth night / Jessica Tvordi -- "Companion me with my mistress" : Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, and their waiting women / Elizabeth A. Brown -- Tracing women's connections from a letter by Elizabeth Ralegh / Karen Robertson -- Sewing connections : Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth Talbot, and seventeenth-century anonymous needleworkers / Susan Frye -- "Faire Eliza's Chaine" : two female writers' literary links to Queen Elizabeth I / Lisa Gim -- Mary Ward's "Jesuitresses" and the construction of a typological community / Lowell Gallagher -- Dearth of the author : anonymity's allies and Swetnam the woman-hater / Valerie Wayne -- Erotics of female friendship in early modern England / Harriette Andreadis -- Alliance and exile : Aphra Behn's racial identity / Margo Hendricks -- Aemilia Lanyer and the invention of white womanhood / Barbara Bowen. |
| Summary |
These essays consider women's alliances in early modern England, ranging over a variety of communities and classes of women to explore the traces of women's connections. The essays, combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism, queer theory, and studies of race. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- England -- History.
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Women. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Women -- Social networks -- England.
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Women -- Social networks. |
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Female friendship -- England.
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Female friendship. |
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Women and literature -- England.
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Women and literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Women's friendships. |
| Added Author |
Frye, Susan, 1952-
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Robertson, Karen, 1947-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Maids and mistresses, cousins and queens. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 (DLC) 98003448 |
| ISBN |
1423759850 (electronic book) |
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9781423759850 (electronic book) |
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1602562393 |
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9781602562394 |
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1280470437 |
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9781280470431 |
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0195353595 |
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9780195353594 |
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0195117352 (Paper) |
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0195117344 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780195117349 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780195117356 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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