Pens and needles : women's textualities in early modern England /
Frye, Susan,1952-
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2010.
"The Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or of the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and Needles is the first book to examine all these forms as interrelated products of self-fashioning and communication." (back cover)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-290) and index.
Political designs : Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, and Bess of Hardwick -- Miniatures and manuscripts : Levina Teerlinc, Jane Segar, and Esther Inglis as professional artisans -- Sewing connections : narratives of agency in women's domestic needlework -- Staging women's relations to textiles in Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline -- Mary Sidney Wroth : clothing romance.
"The Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or of the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and Needles is the first book to examine all these forms as interrelated products of self-fashioning and communication." (back cover)
Arts, English
Arts, English
Material culture
Women
Art and society
Art and society