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Contents: Foreword, Diana Robin Introduction, Julie D. Campbell and Anne R. Larsen Part I Continental Epistolary Communities: Letters make the family: Nassau family correspondence at the turn of the 17th century, Susan Broomhall Letters and lace: Arcangela Tarabotti and convent culture in Seicento Venice, Meredith K. Ray Women, letters, and heresy in 16th-century Italy: Guilia Gonzaga's heterodox epistolary network, Camilla Russell. Part II Cross-Channel Textual Communities and Uses of Print: The gender of the book: Jeanne de Marnef edits Pernette du Guillet, Leah Chang ' Some improvement to their spiritual and eternal state': women's prayers in the 17th-century Church of England, Sharon Arnoult The public life of Anne Vaughan Lock: her reception in England and Scotland, Susan M. Felch Esther Inglis, linguist, calligrapher, miniaturist, and Christian humanist, Sarah Gwyneth Ross Courtliness, piety, and politics: emblem books by Georgette de Montenay, Anna Roemers Visscher and Esther Inglis, Martine van Elk. Part III Constructions of Transnational Literary Circles: Crossing international borders: tutors and the transmission of young women's writing, Julie D. Campbell Journeying across borders: Catherine des Roches's catalog of modern women intellectuals, Anne R. Larsen Forming familles d'alliance: intellectual kinship in the republic of letters, Carol Pal Afterword: critical distance, Margaret J.M. Ezell Bibliography Index. |
