Women's wealth and women's writing in early modern England: 'little legacies' and the materials of motherhood

The Epilogue presents two central conclusions: (1) that song is a slippery and multidimensional form that demands to be considered in embodied, gendered, and performance-based terms, and (2) that song constituted a vital, and vitally charged, rhetorical medium for women writers, performers, and patrons in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Epilogue also open up future areas of critical inquiry, both in relation to early modern women’s writing and literary studies more broadly. In particular, it introduces Early Modern Songscapes, an emergent collaborative and interdisciplinary digital initiative that is responding directly to the methodological questions raised by The Matter of Song in Early Modern England.

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Religion, Reform, and Women's Writing in Early Modern England

Women s Writing ◽

10.1080/09699080903248036 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 470-472

Author(s):

Gillian Wright

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Women's Writing ◽

Early Modern England ◽

Women’S Writing

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Epilogue

Religion, Reform, and Women's Writing in Early Modern England

The Birth of Mankind. Otherwise Named, The Woman's Book edited by Elaine Hobby Women's Wealth and Women's Writing in Early Modern England: ‘Little Legacies’ and the Materials of Motherhood by Elizabeth Mazzola