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Title The Paston women : selected letters / translated from the Middle English with introduction, notes and interpretive essay [by] Diane Watt.

Publication Info. Rochester : D.S. Brewer, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  DA240 .P37 2004    Available  ---
Description x, 178 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Library of medieval women, 1369-9652
Library of medieval women.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164) and index.
Contents Introduction. Three generations of women's letters ; Relationships between the female correspondents and the Paston family ; Calendar -- The letters. The letters and papers of Agnes Berry Paston ; The letters and papers of Elizabeth Paston Poynings or Browne ; The letters and papers of Margaret Mautby Paston ; The letters of Elizabeth Clere ; The letters of Dame Elizabeth Brews ; The letters of Cecily Daune and Constance Reynyforth ; The letters of Margery Brews Paston -- Interpretive essay. "In the absence of a good secretary": The letters, lives, and loves of the Paston women reconsidered.
Subject Paston family -- Correspondence.
Paston family.
Genre/Form Correspondence.
Subject Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 -- Sources.
Women -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Sources.
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VII, 1485-1509 -- Sources.
England -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485 -- Sources.
England.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 1066-1485
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Women -- England -- Correspondence.
Women.
English letters.
English letters.
Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Added Author Watt, Diane, 1965-
Added Title Paston letters. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00025938
ISBN 1843840243 paperback alkaline paper