Early Modern Women’s Letter Writing, 1450–1700

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List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction J .Daybell Reaction, Consolation and Redress in the Letters of the Paston Women R.Dalrymple Letter Writing by English Noblewomen in the Early Fifteenth Century J.Ward Commanding Communications: The Fifteenth-Century Letters of the Stonor Women A.Truelove Female Literary and the Social Conventions of Women's Letter Writing in England, 1540-1603 J.Daybell Deference and Defiance in Women's Letters of the Thynne Family A.Wall Fighting for Family in a Patronage Society: The Epistolary Armoury of Anne Newdigate (1574-1618) V.Larminie 'How Subject to Interpretation': Lady Arbella Stuart and the Reading of Illness S.J.Steen Tudor and Stuart Women: Their Family Lives Through Their Letters R.O'Day Patriarchy, Puritanism and Politics: The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley (1598-1643) J.Eales 'Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world': Letter Writing in Early Modern English Convents C.Walker Gentle Companions: Single Women and Their Letters in Late-Stuart England S.Whyman 'Begging Pardon for all mistakes and errors in this writing I being a women and doing it myself': Family Narratives in Some Early Eighteenth-Century Letters A.Laurence Notes and References Index