Women and Writing, c.1340-c.1650 - The Domestication of Print Culture

Essays offering a gendered approach to the study of the move from manuscript to early printed book show how much women were involved in the process.

List of contents

Introduction - Anne Lawrence-Mathers
Domestic Learning and Teaching: Investigating Evidence for the Role of 'Household Miscellanies' in Late-Medieval England - Phillipa Hardman
Domesticating the Calendar: The Hours and the Almanac in Tudor England - Anne Lawrence-Mathers
'A Briefe and Plaine Declaration': Lady Anne Bacon's 1564 Translation of the Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae - Gemma Allen
Frances Wolfreston's Chaucer - Alison Wiggins
Commonplace Book Culture: A List of Sixteen Traits - Adam Smyth
Women, Politics and Domesticity: The Scribal Publication of Lady Rich's Letter to Elizabeth I - James Daybell
'yr scribe can proove no nessecarye consiquence for you'?: The Social and Linguistic Implications of Joan Thynne's Using a Scribe in Letters to her Son, 1607-1611 - Graham Williams
Fathers and Daughters: Four Women and Their Family Albums of Verse - Elizabeth Heale
The Book as Domestic Gift: Bodleian MS Don. C. 24 - C B Hardman
'Like hewen stone': Augustine, Audience and Revision in Elizabeth Isham's 'Booke of Rememberance' [c. 1639] - Alice Eardley
Female Voices in Early Seventeenth Century Pamphlet Literature - Anna Bayman
Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Anne Lawrence-mather
• Assisted by: Phillipa Hardman (Editor), Anne Lawrence-Mathers (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.08.2010
• EAN: 9781903153321
• ISBN: 978-1-903153-32-1
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 717 g
• Series: Manuscript Culture in the Brit
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism