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Title Early modern women's manuscript writing : selected papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium / edited by Victoria E. Burke, University of Ottawa, Jonathan Gibson, The Perdita Project, University of Warwick.

Publication Info. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
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Note First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Because print publishing was often neither possible nor desirable for women in the early modern period, in order to understand the range of writing by women and indeed women's literary history itself, it is important that scholars consider women's writing in manuscript. Since the body of critical studies on women's writing for the most part prioritizes print over manuscript, this essay collection provides an essential corrective. The essays in this volume discuss many of the ways in which women participated in early modern manuscript culture. The manuscripts studied by the contributors originated in a wide range of different milieux, including the royal Court, the universities, gentry and aristocratic households in England and Ireland, and French convents. Their contents are similarly varied: original and transcribed secular and devotional verse, religious meditations, letters, moral precepts in French and English, and recipes are among the genres represented. Emphasizing the manuscripts' social, political and religious contexts, the contributors challenge commonly held notions about women's writing in English in the early modern period, and bring to light many women whose work has not been considered before.
Contents 1. 'Desiring women writing' : female voices and courtly 'balets' in some early Tudor manuscript albums / Elizabeth Heale -- 2. Katherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth and the Crucified Christ / Jonathan Gibson -- 3. Mildred Cecil, Lady Burleigh : poetry, politics and Protestantism / Jane Stevenson -- 4. Reading friends : women's participation in 'masculine' literary culture / Victoria E. Burke -- 5. CaitlĂ­n Dubh's Keens : literary negotiations in early modern Ireland / Marie-Louise Coolahan -- 6. Lady Anne Southwell's indictment of Adam / Erica Longfellow -- 7. Reading bells and loose papers : reading and writing practices of the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and Paris / Heather Wolfe -- 8. The notebooks of Rachael Fane : education for authorship? / Caroline Bowden -- 9. 'And trophes of his praises make' : providence and poetry in Katherine Austen's Book M, 1664-1668 / Sarah Ross -- 10. The books, manuscripts and literary patronage of Mrs. Anne Sadleir (1585-1670) / Arnold Hunt -- 11. Perfecting practice? Women, manuscript recipes and knowledge in early modern England / Sara Pennell -- 12. 'Often to my self I make my mone' : early modern women's poetry from the Feilding Family / Alison Shell.
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Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses.
Women and literature.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
English literature -- Women authors.
Transmission of texts -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses.
Transmission of texts.
Transmission of texts -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.
Women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 16th century -- Congresses.
Women.
Intellectual life.
Women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century -- Congresses.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 16th century -- Congresses.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century -- Congresses.
Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
Literature publishing.
Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
Authors and readers.
Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.
Books and reading.
Manuscripts -- Great Britain -- Congresses.
Manuscripts.
Chronological Term 1500-1700
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Burke, Victoria E. (Victoria Elizabeth)
Gibson, Jonathan, 1965-
Trinity/Trent Colloquium.
Other Form: 9780754604693 (hardback) 9781138257481 (pbk) 0754604691 (alk. paper)
ISBN 1351942352 electronic book
9781351942355 electronic book
9780754604693
9781315257204
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