This collection of essays examines women's involvement in politics in early modern England, as writers, as members of kinship and patronage networks, and as pet

This landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century. It is the first book to d

The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 an

Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe investigates the gendered nature of political culture across early modern Europe by exploring the relationsh

The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the develo