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Bess of Hardwick's Letters: Language, Materiality, and Early Modern Epistolary Culture

Bess of Hardwick's Letters: Language, Materiality, and Early Modern Epistolary Culture

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Series: Material Readings in Early Modern Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0367140330
ISBN13: 9780367140335
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 17 2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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). Incorporating a range of historical sources-including Account Books, inventories, needlework and textile art and architecture-author Alison Wiggins discloses the vital importance of letter-writing for Bess's ventures in politics, patronage, business, legal negotiation, news-gathering and domestic life.

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