Cooke Sisters - Education, Piety and Politics in Early Modern England

Drawing particularly on their own writings, provides a comprehensive analysis of the lives of the Cooke sisters, part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal Humanist education and well-connected through their marriages to influentialElizabethan politicians.

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• Authors: Gemma Allen, Allen Gemma, Gemma Allen
• Assisted by: Peter Lake (Editor), Anthony Milton (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2013
• EAN: 9780719088339
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8833-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain; Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain; Politics, Culture and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Women, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, Gender studies: women and girls, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599