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The Cooke sisters Education, piety and politics in early modern England / Gemma Allen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Gemma, 1980-
- Series:
- Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
- Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Killigrew, Katherine, Lady, -1583.
- Russell, Elizabeth Cooke Hoby, Lady, 1540-1609.
- Rowlett, Margaret Cooke, 1532?-1558.
- Bacon, Anne Cooke, Lady, 1528?-1610.
- Burghley, Mildred Cooke Cecil, Lady, 1526-1589.
- Women--Education--England--16th century.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Drawing particularly on their own writings, provides a comprehensive analysis of the lives of the Cooke sisters, part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal Humanist education and well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians.
- Contents:
- 'Nouzeled and trained in the studie of letters' : reading and learning
- 'Quod licuit feci' : the power of the word
- 'Haud inane est quod dico' : female counsellors
- 'Cecil's wife tells me' : political networks
- 'Building up of the bodie of the fellowship of Saincts' : religious networks
- 'Of more learning than is necessary for that sex' : responses to learned women.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781526111944
- 1526111942
- 9781526111951
- 1526111950
- OCLC:
- 980749704
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