1st Edition
Bess of Hardwick’s Letters Language, Materiality, and Early Modern Epistolary Culture
By Alison Wiggins
Copyright 2017
224 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
22 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Bess of Hardwick's Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick ( c. 1527–1608). By surveying the complete correspondence, author Alison Wiggins uncovers the wide range of uses to which Bess put letters: they were vital to her engagement in the overlapping realms of politics,... Read more
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Biography
Alison Wiggins is a senior lecturer in English Language at the University of Glasgow, UK.
