Women's Wealth and Women's Writing in Early Modern England: 'Little Legacies' and the Materials of Motherhood

by Elizabeth Mazzola

Book Overview

Focusing on both literary and material networks in early modern England, this book examines the nature of women's wealth, its peculiar laws of transmission and accumulation, and how a world of goods and favors, mothers and daughters was transformed by market culture. Drawing on the long and troubled relationship between Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, Bess of Hardwick, and Arbella Stuart, Elizabeth Mazzola more broadly explores what early modern women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138276200
• ISBN13: 9781138276208
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"