TY - CHAP
T1 - The Secretary of Ladies and Feminine Friendship at the Court of Henrietta Maria
AU - Barnes, Diana
PY - 2008/12/31
Y1 - 2008/12/31
N2 - 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'.
AB - 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'.
KW - British and Irish Literature
UR - https://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an42197116
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780754664208
T3 - Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
SP - 39
EP - 56
BT - Henrietta Maria: Piety, Politics and Patronage
A2 - Griffey, Erin
PB - Ashgate Publishing
CY - Aldershot, United Kingdom
ER -