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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Political activity -- England -- History.
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Women -- Political activity. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.
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Women -- History -- Modern period, 1600-
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- To 1485.
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Great Britain. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1485 |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-
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| Chronological Term |
1485- |
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To 1600 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Daybell, James, 1972- editor.
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| Other Form: |
9780754609889 (hardback) 075460988X (alk. paper) |
| ISBN |
9781351872331 (electronic book) |
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1351872338 (electronic book) |
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9780754609889 |
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9781315233864 |
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131523386X |
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