Learning and Literacy in Female Hands, 1520-1698

by Elizabeth Mazzola and Dr Elizabeth Mazzola

Book Overview

Focusing on the unusual learning and schooling of women in early modern England, this study explores how and why women wrote, the myriad forms their alphabets could assume, and the shape which vernacular literacy acquired in their hands. Elizabeth Mazzola argues that early modern women's writings often challenged the lessons of their male teachers, since they were designed to conceal rather than reveal women's learning and schooling. Employed by early...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032929944
• ISBN13: 9781032929941
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 154 Pages