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Author Allen, Gemma

Title The Cooke sisters : Education, piety and politics in early modern England
Published Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (286 pages)
Series Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUP
Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUP
Contents The Cooke sisters: Education, piety and politics in early modern England: GEMMA ALLEN; Half Title Page; Title Page ; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Note on conventions; Introduction; Chapter 1: 'Nouzeled and trained in the studie of letters': reading and learning; Chapter 2: 'Quod licuit feci': the power of the word; Chapter 3: 'Haud inane est quod dico': female counsellors; Chapter 4: 'Cecil's wife tells me': political networks; Chapter 5: 'Building up of the bodie of the fellowship of Saincts': religious networks
Chapter 6: 'Of more learning than is necessary for that sex': responses to learned womenConclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Burghley, Mildred Cooke Cecil, Lady, 1526-1589.
Bacon, Anne Cooke, Lady, 1528?-1610.
Rowlett, Margaret Cooke, 1532?-1558.
Russell, Elizabeth Cooke Hoby, Lady, 1540-1609.
Killigrew, Katherine, Lady, -1583.
SUBJECT 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
Bacon, Anne Cooke, Lady, 1528?-1610 fast
Burghley, Mildred Cooke Cecil, Lady, 1526-1589 fast
Killigrew, Katherine, Lady, -1583 fast
Rowlett, Margaret Cooke, 1532?-1558 fast
Russell, Elizabeth Cooke Hoby, Lady, 1540-1609 fast
Subject Upper class women -- England -- Social conditions -- 16th century
Upper class women -- Education -- England -- History -- 16th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY / Africa / General
Politics and government
Civilization
SUBJECT England -- Civilization -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043275
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056883
Subject Great Britain
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lake, Peter
Milton, Anthony
Peacey, Jason
Gajda, Alexandra
ISBN 9781526111951
1526111950
9781526111944
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