Women of Letters - Gender, Writing and the Life of the Mind in Early Modern England

Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the development of ideas.

List of contents

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Women and learning
1. Getting started
2. Becoming an intellectual
Part II: Putting pen to paper
3. Writing and thinking
4. Spaces for writing
Part III: Hearts and minds
5. Connecting reason and emotion
6. A seedbed for change
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Leonie Hannan is Research Fellow in the School of History and Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast

Summary

Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the development of ideas. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Leonie Hannan
• Assisted by: Lynn Abrams (Editor), Pamela Sharpe (Editor), Penny Summerfield (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781526127198
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2719-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Gender in History; Gender in History Mup; Gender in History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries