04235nam 2200733 450 991045825550332120200520144314.01-280-47043-71-4237-5985-00-19-535359-51-60256-239-3(CKB)1000000000363217(EBL)4702040(SSID)ssj0000195501(PQKBManifestationID)11183942(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195501(PQKBWorkID)10141198(PQKB)10641388(MiAaPQ)EBC4702040(MiAaPQ)EBC272240(Au-PeEL)EBL4702040(CaPaEBR)ebr11273382(CaONFJC)MIL47043(OCoLC)960165159(EXLCZ)99100000000036321720161012h19991999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMaids and mistresses, cousins and queens women's alliances in early modern England /edited by Susan Frye, Karen RobertsonNew York, New York ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1999.©19991 online resource (369 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-511734-4 0-19-511735-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Alliances in the City; 1 Maidservants of London: Sisterhoods of Kinship and Labor; 2 Women, Work, and Plays in an English Medieval Town; 3 Women's Networks and the Female Vagrant: A Hard Case; 4 ""No Good Thing Ever Comes Out of It"": Male Expectation and Female Alliance in Dekker and Webster's Westward Ho; Part II: Alliances in the Household; 5 ""A P[ar]cell of Murdereing Bitches"": Female Relationships in an Eighteenth-Century Slaveholding Household; 6 The Appropriation of Pleasure in The Magnetic Lady7 Female Alliance and the Construction of Homoeroticism in As You Like It and Twelfth Night8 ""Companion Me with My Mistress"": Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, and Their Waiting Women; Part III: Materializing Communities; 9 Tracing Women's Connections from a Letter by Elizabeth Ralegh; 10 Sewing Connections: Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth Talbot, and Seventeenth-Century Anonymous Needleworkers; 11 ""Faire Eliza's Chaine"": Two Female Writers' Literary Links to Queen Elizabeth I; 12 Mary Ward's ""Jesuitresses"" and the Construction of a Typological Community; Part IV: Emerging Alliances13 The Dearth of the Author: Anonymity's Allies and Swetnam the Woman-hater14 The Erotics of Female Friendship in Early Modern England; 15 Alliance and Exile: Aphra Behn's Racial Identity; 16 Aemilia Lanyer and the Invention of White Womanhood; 17 Afterword: Producing New Knowledge; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; ZThis collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the varied forms of women's alliances in early modern England. Women, who were prohibited from direct participation in the institutional structures that shaped the lives of men, constructed informal connections with other women for survival, advancement, and creativity. The essays presented here consider a variety of communities--formed among groups as diverse as serving women, vagrants, aristocrats, and authors--in order to consider the historical traces of women's connections.WomenEnglandHistoryWomenSocial networksEnglandFemale friendshipEnglandWomen and literatureEnglandWomen in literatureElectronic books.WomenHistory.WomenSocial networksFemale friendshipWomen and literatureWomen in literature.305.4/0942Frye Susan1952-Robertson Karen1947-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458255503321Maids and mistresses, cousins and queens2467490UNINA