Title: The Cooke sisters : education, piety and politics in early modern England /
Authors: Allen, Gemma, 1980-
Publisher: Manchester University Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Burghley, Mildred Cooke Cecil,; Bacon, Anne Cooke,; Rowlett, Margaret Cooke,; Russell, Elizabeth Cooke Hoby,; Killigrew, Katherine,; Russell, Elizabeth Cooke Hoby,; Women Education England
Abstract: Drawing particularly on their own writings, provides a comprehensive analysis of the lives of the Cooke sisters, part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal Humanist education and well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians.
Contents: 'Nouzeled and trained in the studie of letters' : reading and learning -- 'Quod licuit feci' : the power of the word -- 'Haud inane est quod dico' : female counsellors -- 'Cecil's wife tells me' : political networks -- 'Building up of the bodie of the fellowship of Saincts' : religious networks -- 'Of more learning than is necessary for that sex' : responses to learned women.