Women and Writing, c.1340-c.1650. The Domestication of Print Culture

Copyists, letter writers and readers, however, still occupy rungs further down the literary ladder, despite playing a crucial role in the history of the book, and Lawrence-Mathers and Hardman have done well to examine their contribution to early modern literary production via domestic modes of expre...

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Published inJournal of the Early Book Society for the study of manuscripts and printing history Vol. 14; p. 296
Main Author Hosington, Brenda M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Pace University 01.01.2011
Subjects
Brochures
Correspondence
Daughters
Domestication
Essays
Translations
Women
Writing
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England
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Summary:Copyists, letter writers and readers, however, still occupy rungs further down the literary ladder, despite playing a crucial role in the history of the book, and Lawrence-Mathers and Hardman have done well to examine their contribution to early modern literary production via domestic modes of expression and dissemination. The "private" and the "public" intersect in many ways, as Daybell demonstrates, not least in the passage from manuscript to print and from traditionally female social activities such as familial letter writing to political intervention in court circles by means of formal correspondence, not so usually associated with women. The volume contains manuscript marginalia and underlinings, demonstrating female engagement with a literary text within a domestic context, although, as Wiggins points out, these cannot in all certainty be attributed to the women owners. [...]the annotations of an identified male reader muddy the waters somewhat.
ISSN:1525-6790