Title: Dido's daughters
Description: Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. Margaret Ferguson reveals in this text that this is inadequate, because it fails to help understand heated conflicts over literature during the emergence of print culture.
Subjects: Education, English literature, European literature, French literature, History and criticism, Modern Literature, Women, Women and literature, Women authors, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, French literature, history and criticism, 16th century, French literature, history and criticism, 17th century, Literacy, history, French literature, women authors, English literature, women authors, History
Places: England, France