‘For Worth, Not Weakness, Makes in Use but One’: Literary Dialogues in an English Renaissance Family

Wynne-Davies, Marion

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-62888-9_9

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“…48 Common religious and literary interests also drew women into networks to which they attached great importance, as Mary Erler and Marion Wynne-Davies have shown. 49 As in the case of female networks, scholars from different disciplines who work on aristocratic and gentry women have extended their research into one of the newest areas of women's history -female identity and subjectivity. Here, literary scholars have taken the lead.…”

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Aristocratic and Gentry Women, 1460–1640

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2006

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This essay surveys both the external and internal developments that have shaped work on late medieval and early modern English aristocratic women in the last century. Feminism and the position of women have played a crucial role in determining the level of interest in and interpretations of the subject. The development of related fields such as family history, feminist theory, and women’s studies has also profoundly affected the evolution of the field and current work on it.

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