The Cooke Sisters: Education, Piety and Politics in Early Modern England

by Gemma Allen

Book Overview

Now available in paperback, this book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on the sisters' own writings, this book demonstrates that the sisters' education extended far beyond that normally allowed for sixteenth-century women,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719099773
• ISBN13: 9780719099779
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"