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By examining some of the many different ways in which women participated in manuscript culture, the essays in this volume make important contributions to the field of women's writing in the early modern period when print publishing was less accessible to women. Because print publishing was often neither possible nor desirable for women in the early modern period, in order to understand the range of writing by women and indeed women's literary history itself, it is important that scholars consider women's writing in manuscript. Since the body of critical studies on women's writing for the most part prioritizes print over manuscript, this essay collection provides an essential corrective. The essays in this volume discuss many of the ways in which women participated in early modern manuscript culture. The manuscripts studied by the contributors originated in a wide range of different milieux, including the royal Court, the universities, gentry and aristocratic households in England and Ireland, and French convents. Their contents are similarly varied: original and transcribed secular and devotional verse, religious meditations, letters, moral precepts in French and English, and recip

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Author

Jonathan Gibson; Victoria E. Burke

Publisher

Ashgate; Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351942355

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism