| Description |
vi, 252 p. : ill., port. |
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Women and gender in the early modern world |
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Women and gender in the early modern world.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : women, religious communities, prose genres, and textual production / Micheline White -- Living stones : Lady Elizabeth Russell and the art of sacred conversation / Patricia Phillippy -- Theise dearest offrings of my heart : the sacrifice of praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes / Mary Trull -- Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic patronage / Susannah Brietz Monta -- Ensigne-bearers of Saint Clare : Elizabeth Evelinge's early translations and the restoration of England franciscanism / Jaime Goodrich -- Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of Christian warfare / Julie Crawford -- Prospecting for common ground in devotion : Queen Katherine Parr's personal prayerbook / Janel Mueller -- "Halff a scrypture woman" : heteroglossia and female authorial agency in prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill / Susan M. Felch -- Authority, scripture, and typography in Lady Grace Mildmay's manuscript meditations / Kate Narveson -- Lady Margaret Beaufort's translations as mirrors as practical piety / Brenda M. Hosington -- "Nether bitterly nor brablingly" : Lady Anne Cooke Bacon's translation of Bishop Jewel's Apologia ecclesiae anglicanae / Patricia Demers. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Women and religion -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Women and religion -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Religion in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
White, Micheline.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781409406518 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9781409406525 (electronic bk.) |
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