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Title:

Women and writing, c.1340-c.1650 : the domestication of print culture / edited by Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Phillipa Hardman.

Publisher:

York Medieval Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

ix, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History.
Women in the book industries and trade--Great Britain--History.
Manuscripts, English (Middle)--Great Britain.

Other Authors:

Lawrence-Mathers, Anne, 1953-
Hardman, Phillipa, 1948-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-229) and index.

Contents:

Female voices in early seventeenth century pamphlet literature / investigating evidence for the role of 'household miscellanies' in Late-Medieval England / Anna Bayman. Domesticating the calendar : the hours and the almanac in Tudor England / Anne Lawrence-Mathers -- 'a briefe and plaine declaration' : Lady Anne Bacon's 1564 translation of the Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae / Gemma Allen -- Frances Wolfreston's Chaucer / Alison Wiggins -- Commonplace book culture : a list of sixteen traits / Adam Smyth -- Women, politics and domesticity : the scribal publication of Lady Rich's letters to Elizabeth I / James Daybell -- 'yr scribe can proove no nessecarye consiquence for you'? : the social and linguistic implications of Joan Thynne's using a scribe in letters to her son, 1607-11 / Graham Williams -- Fathers and daughters : four women and their family albums of verse / Elizabeth Heale -- The book as domestic gift : Bodleian MS Don. C. 24 / C. B. Hardman -- 'like hewen stone' : Augustine, audience and revision in Elizabeth Isham's Booke of rememberance (c. 1639) / Alice Eardley -- Female voices in early seventeenth century pamphlet literature / Anna Bayman.

Summary:

The transition from medieval manuscript to early printed book is currently a major topic of academic interest, but has received very little attention in terms of women's involvement, an issue which the essays in this volume address. They add female names to the list of authors who participated in the creation of English literature, and examine women's responses to authoritative and traditional texts in revealing detail.
Taking its cue from the advances made by recent work on manuscript culture and book history, this volume also includes studies of material evidence, looking at women's participation in the making of books, and the traces they left when they encountered actual volumes. Finally, studies of women's roles in relation to apparently ephemeral texts, such as letters, pamphlets and almanacs, challenge traditional divisions between public and private spheres as well as between manuscript and print --Book Jacket.

Series:

Manuscript culture in the British Isles ; 2

ISBN:

1903153328
9781903153321

OCLC:

(OCoLC)491913254

LCCN:

2010502808

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)