Maids and mistresses, cousins and queens women's alliances in early modern England / edited by Susan Frye, Karen Robertson.
| Other author | Frye, Susan, 1952- |
| Other author | Robertson, Karen, 1947- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. |
| Description | xviii, 350 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Maidservants of London : sisterhoods of kinship and labor / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Women, work, and plays in an English medieval town / Mary Wack -- Women's networks and the female vagrant : a hard case / Jodi Mikalachki -- "No good thing ever comes out of it" : male expectation and female alliance in Dekker and Webster's Westward ho / Simon Morgan-Russell -- "P[ar]cell of murdereing bitches" : female relationships in an eighteenth-century slaveholding household / Kathleen M. Brown -- Appropriation of pleasure in The magnetic lady / Helen Ostovich -- Female alliance and the construction of homoeroticism in As you like it and Twelfth night / Jessica Tvordi -- "Companion me with my mistress" : Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, and their waiting women / Elizabeth A. Brown -- Tracing women's connections from a letter by Elizabeth Ralegh / Karen Robertson -- Sewing connections : Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth Talbot, and seventeenth-century anonymous needleworkers / Susan Frye -- "Faire Eliza's Chaine" : two female writers' literary links to Queen Elizabeth I / Lisa Gim -- Mary Ward's "Jesuitresses" and the construction of a typological community / Lowell Gallagher -- Dearth of the author : anonymity's allies and Swetnam the woman-hater / Valerie Wayne -- Erotics of female friendship in early modern England / Harriette Andreadis -- Alliance and exile : Aphra Behn's racial identity / Margo Hendricks -- Aemilia Lanyer and the invention of white womanhood / Barbara Bowen. |
| General note | "Began as a seminar at the Shakespeare Association of America meeting of 1993 in Atlanta and the project continued to expand"--Foreword. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-341) and index. |
| LCCN | 98003448 |
| ISBN | 0195117344 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0195117352 (paper : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | HQ1599.E5 M35 1999 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |