ISBN:
9781351872331
,
1351872338
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9781315233864
,
131523386X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Parallel Title:
Available in another form
DDC:
306.20820942
Keywords:
Women Political activity
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History
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England
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Women History
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Renaissance, 1450-1600
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Women History
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Modern period, 1600-
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Women History Renaissance, 1450-1600
;
Women History Modern period, 1600-
;
Women Political activity
;
History
;
Women History Modern period, 1600-
;
Women Political activity
;
History
;
Women History Renaissance, 1450-1600
;
Women ; Modern period
;
Women ; Political activity
;
Women ; Renaissance
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Politics and government
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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History
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Great Britain Politics and government
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To 1485
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Great Britain Politics and government
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1485-
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England
;
Great Britain
;
Great Britain Politics and government To 1485
;
Great Britain Politics and government 1485-
;
Great Britain Politics and government 1485-
;
Great Britain Politics and government To 1485
;
England
;
Great Britain
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
1. Introduction : rethinking women and politics in early modern England / James Daybell -- 2. Sisterhood, friendship and the power of English aristocratic women, 1450-1550 / Barbara J. Harris -- 3. A rhetoric of requests : genre and linguistic scripts in Elizabethan women's suitors' letters / Lynne Magnusson -- 4. Politics in the Elizabethan privy chamber : Lady Mary Sidney and Kat Ashley / Natalie Mears -- 5. Portingale women and politics in late Elizabethan London / Alan Stewart -- 6. Negotiating favour : the letters of Lady Ralegh / Karen Robertson -- 7. 'Suche newes as on the Quenes hye wayes we have mett' : the news and intelligence networks of Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1527-1608) / James Daybell -- 8. Esther Inglis and the English succession crisis of 1599 / Tricia Bracher -- 9. The Cavendish-Talbot women : playing a high-stakes game / Sara Jayne Steen -- 10. Aristocratic women, power, patronage and family networks at the Jacobean court, 1603-1625 / Helen Payne -- 11. Anne of Denmark and the historical contextualisation of Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII / Susan Frye -- 12. Mothers, lovers and others : royalist women / Jerome de Groot -- 13. Beyond microhistory : the use of women's manuscripts in a widening political arena / Elizabeth Clarke -- 14. Loyal and dutiful subjects : English nuns and Stuart politics / Claire Walker -- 15. Assuming gentility : Thomas Middleton, Mary Carleton and Aphra Behn / Valerie Wayne.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 7, 2017)
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