Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Dedication
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction: Rethinking Women and Politics in Early Modern England
  • 2 Sisterhood, Friendship and the Power of English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550
  • 3 A Rhetoric of Requests: Genre and Linguistic Scripts in Elizabethan Women's Suitors' Letters
  • 4 Politics in the Elizabethan Privy Chamber: Lady Mary Sidney and Kat Ashley
  • 5 Portingale Women and Politics in Late Elizabethan London
  • 6 Negotiating Favour: the Letters of Lady Ralegh
  • 7 'Suche newes as on the Quenes hye wayes we have mett': the News and Intelligence Networks of Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1527-1608)
  • 8 Esther Inglis and the English Succession Crisis of 1599
  • 9 The Cavendish-Talbot Women: Playing a High-Stakes Game
  • 10 Aristocratic Women, Power, Patronage and Family Networks at the Jacobean Court, 1603-1625
  • 11 Anne of Denmark and the Historical Contextualisation of Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII
  • 12 Mothers, Lovers and Others: Royalist Women
  • 13 Beyond Microhistory: the Use of Women's Manuscripts in a Widening Political Arena
  • 14 Loyal and Dutiful Subjects: English Nuns and Stuart Politics
  • 15 Assuming Gentility: Thomas Middleton, Mary Carleton and Aphra Behn
  • Index.