Women's Wealth and Women's Writing in Early Modern England
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archival research methods
Author_Elizabeth Mazzola
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Daughterly Love
Early Modern
Early Modern England
early modern gender studies
Early Modern Household
Early Modern Mothers
Early Modern Women
Early Modern Women's Writings
Early Modern Women’s Writings
Elizabeth Talbot
Elizabeth's Translation
Elizabeth’s Translation
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feminist historiography
gift
gift exchange theory
Hardwick Hall
Henry III
Hir Majesty
Houshold Stuff
Jane Grey
Jennifer Summit
literary inheritance
Mary's Needlework
Mary's Poetry
Mary's Robes
Mary's Work
marys
Mary’s Needlework
Mary’s Poetry
Mary’s Robes
Mary’s Work
material culture analysis
Mother's Daughter
Mother’s Daughter
needlework
princess
Stuart's Letters
Stuart’s Letters
wall
Wall Hangings
wendy
women's material legacy transmission
Women's Needlework
Women's Wealth
womens
Women’s Needlework
Women’s Wealth
writings
Year's Gift
years
Year’s Gift
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- ISBN 9781138276208
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Focusing on both literary and material networks in early modern England, this book examines the nature of women's wealth, its peculiar laws of transmission and accumulation, and how a world of goods and favors, mothers and daughters was transformed by market culture. Drawing on the long and troubled relationship between Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, Bess of Hardwick, and Arbella Stuart, Elizabeth Mazzola more broadly explores what early modern women might exchange with or leave to each other, including jewels and cloth, needlework, combs, and candlesticks. Women's writings take their place in this circulation of material things, and Mazzola argues that their poems and prayers, letters and wills are particularly designed with the aim of substantiating female ties. This book is an interdisciplinary one, making use of archival research, literary criticism, social history, feminist theory, and anthropological studies of gift exchange to propose that early modern women - whatever their class, educational background or marital status - were key economic players, actively pursuing favors, trading services, and exchanging goods.
Elizabeth Mazzola is Professor of English, City College of the City University of New York, USA
