The Life and Letters of Lady Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland 1536–1591 - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0902832352 ISBN 13 : 9780902832350

Editeur : Catholic Record Society, 2024

Synopsis

As the key figure in a transnational correspondence network, Lady Anne Percy was able to maintain her agency and influence even in exile in the Low Countries. This edition of Anne Percy's correspondence also provides an account of her life, and discusses the linguistic, rhetorical, and material features of her letters. In doing so it highlights the strategies by which she maintained her patronage and ensured her influence even in exile.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr Jade Scott is a historical linguist and expert in Early Modern women's correspondence. Her research brings together approaches from historical pragmatics and gender and social history to examine women's linguistic agency. She is especially interested in multilingual communities of correspondence and has studied female Catholic exiles under Elizabeth I, code-switching in the letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, and most recently non-royal Scottish women before the death of James VI.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Catholic Record Society
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0902832352
• ISBN 13: 9780902832350
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 178
• Éditeur: Scott Jade
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