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The Cooke sisters : Education, piety and politics in early modern England

This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education; the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on the sisters' own writ...

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Auteur principal: Allen, Gemma
Autres auteurs: Gajda, Alexandra, Peacey, Jason, Milton, Anthony, Lake, Peter
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education; the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on the sisters' own writings, this book demonstrates that the sisters' education extended far beyond that normally allowed for sixteenth-century women, challenging the view that women in this period were excluded from using their formal education to practical effect. It reveals that the sisters' learning provided them with oppo.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9781526111951