Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction : rethinking women and politics in early modern England / James Daybell
  • 2. Sisterhood, friendship and the power of English aristocratic women, 1450-1550 / Barbara J. Harris
  • 3. A rhetoric of requests : genre and linguistic scripts in Elizabethan women's suitors' letters / Lynne Magnusson
  • 4. Politics in the Elizabethan privy chamber : Lady Mary Sidney and Kat Ashley / Natalie Mears
  • 5. Portingale women and politics in late Elizabethan London / Alan Stewart
  • 6. Negotiating favour : the letters of Lady Ralegh / Karen Robertson
  • 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) / James Daybell
  • 8. Esther Inglis and the English succession crisis of 1599 / Tricia Bracher
  • 9. The Cavendish-Talbot women : playing a high-stakes game / Sara Jayne Steen
  • 10. Aristocratic women, power, patronage and family networks at the Jacobean court, 1603-1625 / Helen Payne
  • 11. Anne of Denmark and the historical contextualisation of Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII / Susan Frye
  • 12. Mothers, lovers and others : royalist women / Jerome de Groot
  • 13. Beyond microhistory : the use of women's manuscripts in a widening political arena / Elizabeth Clarke
  • 14. Loyal and dutiful subjects : English nuns and Stuart politics / Claire Walker
  • 15. Assuming gentility : Thomas Middleton, Mary Carleton and Aphra Behn / Valerie Wayne.