Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance: Relative Values (Early Modern Literature in History)

Discussing the role of women writers working in family groups during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this new study explores the development of familial discourse within a chronological frame, commencing with the More family and concluding with the Cavendish group. Filling a gap in Renaissance scholarship, this book explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production, but simultaneously closeted them within a form of writing that often encompassed genre, style, rhetoric and theme.