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https://doi.org/10.32608/2307-8383-2024-32-006-053
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The article is focused on gender aspects of the circulation of news and rumours within female patronage and communication systems. The study presents an analysis of the largest and best-preserved epistolary archive of a 16th-century Englishwoman — the correspondence of Elizabeth talbot (born Bess of Hardwick), Countess of Shrewsbury (1522/1527-1608). The studies of the last two decades have shown that women, especially court ladies, were actively involved in the exchange of political information. However, a distance has been thought to separate news/rumours exchanged by men and related to politics and family’s public reputation, and women’s gossip, which belonged to family matters. The analysis of letters written and received by the Countess of Shrewsbury demonstrates that both elite men and women were equally active in exchanging new/rumours on the matters of family and marriage, court affairs, officeholding, and other political topics, domestic and foreign.
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