Learning and Literacy in Female Hands, 1520-1698
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Early Modern Daughters
Early Modern Englishwomen
Early Modern Mothers
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Early Modern Woman Writer
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Early Modern Women’s Letters
Elizabeth's Court
Elizabeth’s Court
English Renaissance literacy
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Jane Grey
Katherina Minola
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Martha Moulsworth
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Sidney's Letter
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Subject=Literature: History & Criticism
Subject=Society & Culture : General
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- ISBN 9781409453758
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Focusing on the unusual learning and schooling of women in early modern England, this study explores how and why women wrote, the myriad forms their alphabets could assume, and the shape which vernacular literacy acquired in their hands. Elizabeth Mazzola argues that early modern women's writings often challenged the lessons of their male teachers, since they were designed to conceal rather than reveal women's learning and schooling. Employed by early modern women with great learning and much art, such difficult or ’resistant’ literacy organized households and administrative offices alike, and transformed the broader history of literacy in the West. Chapters treat writers like Jane Sharp, Anne Southwell, Jane Seager, Martha Moulsworth, Elizabeth Tudor, and Katherine Parr alongside images of women writers presented by Shakespeare and Sidney. Managing women's literacy also concerned early modern statesmen and secretaries, writing masters and grammarians, and Mazzola analyzes how both the emerging vernacular and a developing bureaucratic state were informed by these contests over women's hands.
Elizabeth Mazzola is Professor of English at The City College of New York, CUNY. Among her three previous books is Women's Wealth and Women's Writing.
