The Cooke sisters : Education, piety and politics in early modern England.

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The Cooke sisters: Education, piety and politics in early modern England: GEMMA ALLEN; Half Title Page; Title Page ; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Note on conventions; Introduction; Chapter 1: 'Nouzeled and trained in the studie of letters': reading and learning; Chapter 2: 'Quod licuit feci': the power of the word; Chapter 3: 'Haud inane est quod dico': female counsellors; Chapter 4: 'Cecil's wife tells me': political networks; Chapter 5: 'Building up of the bodie of the fellowship of Saincts': religious networks.

Chapter 6: 'Of more learning than is necessary for that sex': responses to learned womenConclusion; Bibliography; Index.

This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education; the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on the sisters' own writings, this book demonstrates that the sisters' education extended far beyond that normally allowed for sixteenth-century women, challenging the view that women in this period were excluded from using their formal education to practical effect. It reveals that the sisters' learning provided them with oppo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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