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Bess Of Hardwick S Letters

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Author : Alison Wiggins
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-11-10

Bess Of Hardwick S Letters written by Alison Wiggins and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-10 with Literary Criticism categories.

Bess of Hardwick's Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick (c. 1527–1608). By surveying the complete correspondence, author Alison Wiggins uncovers the wide range of uses to which Bess put letters: they were vital to her engagement in the overlapping realms of politics, patronage, business, legal negotiation, news-gathering and domestic life. Much more than a case study of Bess's letters, the discussions of language, handwriting and materiality found here have fundamental implications for the way we approach and read Renaissance letters. Wiggins offers readings which show how Renaissance letters communicated meaning through the interweaving linguistic, palaeographic and material forms, according to socio-historical context and function. The study goes beyond the letters themselves and incorporates a range of historical sources to situate circumstances of production and reception, which include Account Books, inventories, needlework and textile art and architecture. The study is therefore essential reading for scholars in historical linguistics, historical pragmatics, palaeography and manuscript studies, material culture, English literature and social history.

Bess Of Hardwick S Letters

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Author : Alison Wiggins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-10

Bess Of Hardwick S Letters written by Alison Wiggins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-10 with Literary Criticism categories.

Bess of Hardwick's Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick (c. 1527–1608). By surveying the complete correspondence, author Alison Wiggins uncovers the wide range of uses to which Bess put letters: they were vital to her engagement in the overlapping realms of politics, patronage, business, legal negotiation, news-gathering and domestic life. Much more than a case study of Bess's letters, the discussions of language, handwriting and materiality found here have fundamental implications for the way we approach and read Renaissance letters. Wiggins offers readings which show how Renaissance letters communicated meaning through the interweaving linguistic, palaeographic and material forms, according to socio-historical context and function. The study goes beyond the letters themselves and incorporates a range of historical sources to situate circumstances of production and reception, which include Account Books, inventories, needlework and textile art and architecture. The study is therefore essential reading for scholars in historical linguistics, historical pragmatics, palaeography and manuscript studies, material culture, English literature and social history.

Bess Of Hardwick S Letters

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Author : Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot Countess of Shrewsbury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

Bess Of Hardwick S Letters written by Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot Countess of Shrewsbury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with England categories.

An Investigation Into The Language And Letters Of Bess Of Hardwick C 1527 1608

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Author : Imogen Julia Marcus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

An Investigation Into The Language And Letters Of Bess Of Hardwick C 1527 1608 written by Imogen Julia Marcus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.

Bess Of Hardwick

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Author : Mary S. Lovell
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 2005

Bess Of Hardwick written by Mary S. Lovell and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Chronicles the life of a sixteenth-century impoverished nobleman's daughter who rose to become one of England's most wealthy and powerful women, in an account that describes her four marriages, witness to four monarchies, and building of the great house at Chatsworth. By the author of The Sisters.

Bess Of Hardwick And Her Circle

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Author : Maud Stepney Rawson
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-07-21

Bess Of Hardwick And Her Circle written by Maud Stepney Rawson and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-21 with History categories.

Bess of Hardwick is a biography about a notable figure in Elizabethan English society. Bess is well-known for her building projects, the most famous of which are Chatsworth, now the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, and Hardwick Hall. Contents: The Red-Haired Girl, The Mistress Builder, "A Great Gentleman," Hubbub, cont.

Bess Of Hardwick

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Author : Lisa Hopkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-01-09

Bess Of Hardwick written by Lisa Hopkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-09 with Literary Criticism categories.

Born the daughter of a country squire, Bess of Hardwick made four marriages which brought her wealth and status. She built and furnished houses and founded a dynasty which included a granddaughter, Arbella Stuart, who had a claim to the thrones of both England and Scotland.

Women Letter Writers In Tudor England

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Author : James Daybell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-26

Women Letter Writers In Tudor England written by James Daybell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-26 with History categories.

Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England represents one of the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period to be undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and non-political. Based on over 3,000 manuscript letters, it shows that letter-writing was a larger and more socially diversified area of female activity than has been hitherto assumed. In that letters constitute the largest body of extant sixteenth-century women's writing, the book initiates a reassessment of women's education and literacy in the period. As indicators of literacy, letters yield physical evidence of rudimentary writing activity and abilities, document 'higher' forms of female literacy, and highlight women's mastery of formal rhetorical and epistolary conventions. Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England also stresses that letters are unparalleled as intimate and immediate records of family relationships, and as media for personal and self-reflective forms of female expression. Read as documents that inscribe social and gender relations, letters shed light on the complex range of women's personal relationships, as female power and authority fluctuated, negotiated on an individual basis. Furthermore, correspondence highlights the important political roles played by early modern women. Female letter-writers were integral in cultivating and maintaining patronage and kinship networks; they were active as suitors for crown favour, and operated as political intermediaries and patrons in their own right, using letters to elicit influence. Letters thus help to locate differing forms of female power within the family, locality and occasionally on the wider political stage, and offer invaluable primary evidence from which to reconstruct the lives of early modern women.

Bess Of Hardwick

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Author : Lisa Hopkins
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-09

Bess Of Hardwick written by Lisa Hopkins and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-09 with Literary Criticism categories.

Born the daughter of a country squire, Bess of Hardwick made four marriages which brought her wealth and status. She built and furnished houses and founded a dynasty which included a granddaughter, Arbella Stuart, who had a claim to the thrones of both England and Scotland.

Bess Of Hardwick

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Author : Mary S. Lovell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-06-04

Bess Of Hardwick written by Mary S. Lovell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-04 with History categories.

A biography of one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era - next to Queen Elizabeth the most powerful woman in England Bess of Hardwick, born into the most brutal and turbulent period of England's history, did not have an auspicious start in life. Widowed for the first time at sixteen, she nonetheless outlived four monarchs, married three more times, and died one of the wealthiest and most powerful women the country has ever seen. The Tudor age was a hazardous time for an ambitious woman: by the time Frances, Bess's first child, was six, three of her illustrious godparents had been beheaded. Plague regularly wiped out entire families, conspiracies and feuds were rife. But through all this Bess Hardwick bore eight children and built an empire of her own: the great houses of Chatsworth and Hardwick. 'The best account yet of this shrewd, enigmatic and remarkable woman' Sunday Times 'Lovell has excelled at bringing the Tudor age to exuberant life. A phenomenal story' Mail on Sunday 'Utterly absorbing... one of those biographies in which the reader really doesn't want the subject to die' Independent on Sunday