Pens and Needles: Women's Textualities in Early Modern England

Susan Frye

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2010

Pens and Needles

Women's Textualities in Early Modern England

Susan Frye

In the series Material Texts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206982

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About this book

Through an examination of the expressive arts of needlework, painting, and writing, Pens and Needles offers insights into women's lives and, in its final chapters, into literary texts such as Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline and Mary Sidney Wroth's Urania.

Author / Editor information

Susan Frye is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming and author of Elizabeth I: The Competition for Representation.

Reviews

"Susan Frye's book is most fascinating in drawing out the histories and texts, both written and sewn, of less well-known women, and showing that they saw their needlework as equally articulate, valuable, and artful as their words."—TLS

"Susan Frye's book is a beautiful and powerful contribution to scholarship on early modern women's material culture. . . . No other book covers such ground; Pens and Needles is an invaluable resource for art historians, social historians, literary critics, and anyone interested in the material world that early modern women made."—American Historical Review

"Susan Frye's meticulously researched, beautifully illustrated, and brilliantly titled Pens and Needles makes a significant addition to a growing subfield in early modern gender studies: the expressive arts of women's needlework, which Frye sees as a mode of both female self-fashioning and creative communication."—Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

"No other book analyzes the combination of visual, textile, and textual modes in relation to early modern women as this one does. Frye draws on a vast range of sources, from comments on the minutiae of Shakespeare's plays, to contemporary translations of the poems of Mary Stuart, to a range of theorists including Michel de Certeau, Marcel Mauss and Karl Marx, to make a complex and convincing argument about women's consciousness and work."—Ann Rosalind Jones, Smith College

"Frye beautifully succeeds in aligning the different material practices, especially in the surprising discovery of a new portrait of Mary Queen of Scots embroidered by Bess of Hardwick."—Maureen Quilligan, Duke University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Note on Spelling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. Political Designs: Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, and Bess of Hardwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Chapter Two. Miniatures and Manuscripts: Levina Teerlinc, Jane Segar, and Esther Inglis as Professional Artisans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter Three. Sewing Connections: Narratives of Agency in Women’s Domestic Needlework Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Chapter Four. Staging Women’s Relations to Textiles in Shakespeare’s Othello and Cymbeline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Chapter Five. Mary Sidney Wroth: Clothing Romance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
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Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Other: 21 color, 31 b/w illus.
Keywords: Literature; Women's Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Gender Studies; Fine Art; Architecture; Garden History

eBook

Published: November 29, 2011
ISBN: 9780812206982