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The Secretary of Ladies and Feminine Friendship at the Court of Henrietta Maria |
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Women and Gender in the Early Modern World |
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Jerome Hainhofer's English translation of Jacques du Bosque's The Secretary of Ladies, Or a New Collection of Letters and Answers Composed by Moderne Ladies and Gentlewomen (originally published in French in 1635) was entered in the Stationers' Register on 2 August 1638. The word 'secretary' in the title signals generic continuity with Angel Day's The English Secretary (1586; tenth edition 1635). By contrast, this is a collection of letters exchanged between female friends and not a letter-writing manual. Du Bosque claims that the collection will 'make it appear that Letters are not the particular heritage of one sex; and that men are out, when they vant themselves sole Monarchs in the Empire of the sciences'. |
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Henrietta Maria: Piety, Politics and Patronage, p. 39-56 |
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