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Pens and Needles : Women's Textualities in Early Modern England / Susan Frye.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Material TextsPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) : 21 color, 31 b/w illusContent type:
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  • 9780812242386
  • 9780812206982
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.9420903 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Note on Spelling -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Political Designs: Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, and Bess of Hardwick -- Chapter Two. Miniatures and Manuscripts: Levina Teerlinc, Jane Segar, and Esther Inglis as Professional Artisans -- Chapter Three. Sewing Connections: Narratives of Agency in Women's Domestic Needlework -- Chapter Four. Staging Women's Relations to Textiles in Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline -- Chapter Five. Mary Sidney Wroth: Clothing Romance -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: The Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and Needles is the first book to examine all these forms as interrelated products of self-fashioning and communication.Because early modern people saw verbal and visual texts as closely related, Susan Frye discusses the connections between the many forms of women's textualities, including notes in samplers, alphabets both stitched and penned, initials, ciphers, and extensive texts like needlework pictures, self-portraits, poetry, and pamphlets, as well as commissioned artwork, architecture, and interior design. She examines works on paper and cloth by such famous figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Bess of Hardwick, as well as the output of journeywomen needleworkers and miniaturists Levina Teerlinc and Esther Inglis, and their lesser-known sisters in the English colonies of the New World. Frye shows how traditional women's work was a way for women to communicate with one another and to shape their own identities within familial, intellectual, religious, and historical traditions. Pens and Needles offers insights into women's lives and into such literary texts as Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline and Mary Sidney Wroth's Urania.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Note on Spelling -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Political Designs: Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, and Bess of Hardwick -- Chapter Two. Miniatures and Manuscripts: Levina Teerlinc, Jane Segar, and Esther Inglis as Professional Artisans -- Chapter Three. Sewing Connections: Narratives of Agency in Women's Domestic Needlework -- Chapter Four. Staging Women's Relations to Textiles in Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline -- Chapter Five. Mary Sidney Wroth: Clothing Romance -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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The Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and Needles is the first book to examine all these forms as interrelated products of self-fashioning and communication.Because early modern people saw verbal and visual texts as closely related, Susan Frye discusses the connections between the many forms of women's textualities, including notes in samplers, alphabets both stitched and penned, initials, ciphers, and extensive texts like needlework pictures, self-portraits, poetry, and pamphlets, as well as commissioned artwork, architecture, and interior design. She examines works on paper and cloth by such famous figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Bess of Hardwick, as well as the output of journeywomen needleworkers and miniaturists Levina Teerlinc and Esther Inglis, and their lesser-known sisters in the English colonies of the New World. Frye shows how traditional women's work was a way for women to communicate with one another and to shape their own identities within familial, intellectual, religious, and historical traditions. Pens and Needles offers insights into women's lives and into such literary texts as Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline and Mary Sidney Wroth's Urania.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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