Pens and Needles: Women's Textualities in Early Modern England
Braaten, Ann W., Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences
Pens and Needles: Women's Textualities in Early Modern England By Susan Frye Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA (2010) $65.
Reviewed by Ann W. Braaten
In Pens and Needles: Women's Textualities in Early Modern England, Susan Frye provides an understanding of the lives of early modern English women through her analysis of the "media that they used to express those lives." Their media, which Frye calls textualities, include both verbal and visual expressions (e.g., writings, paintings, and embroidery). The women whose writings and artifacts are examined lived from 1540 to 1700, during the English Renaissance, from the reign of Henry VIII through …
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Publication information:
Article title: Pens and Needles: Women's Textualities in Early Modern England.
Contributors: Braaten, Ann W. - Author.
Journal title: Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences.
Volume: 102.
Issue: 4
Publication date: Fall 2010.
Page number: 61+.
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