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Contents: Introduction: Form and persuasion in women’s letters, 1400–1700, Jane Couchman and Ann Crabb. Part I Persuasion for Family and Personal Goals: How to Influence Your Children: Persuasion and Form in Alessandra Macigni Strozzi’s letters to her sons, Ann Crabb; ’A masterful woman’: Elizabeth Stonor and English women’s letters, 1399–c.1530, Malcolm Richardson; ’Much could be written’: Glikl of Hameln’s life in writing, Erin Henriksen and Mark Zelcer; ’I am the same Cornelia I have always been’: reading Cornelia Collonello’s letters to Michelangelo, Deborah Stott; Letters across the borders: strategies of communication in an Italian-German Renaissance correspondence, Christina Antenhofer; Isabella d’Este and the properties of persuasion, Deanna Shemek. Part II Public and Private Intersecting: ’I wold wyshe my doings myght be ... secret’: privacy and the social practices of reading women’s letters in 16th-century England, James Daybell; ’Give birth quickly and then send us your good husband’: Informal Political Influence in the Letters of Louise de Coligny, Jane Couchman; ’Pregnant with 100,000 soldiers’: the correspondence of Marguerite de Navarre and François I, Barbara Stephenson; In the Queen’s words: Perceptions of Regency Government Gleaned from the Correspondence of Catherine de Médicis, Elizabeth McCartney; ’Burdened with small children’. Women Defining Poverty in 16th-Century Tours, Susan Broomhall. Part III Validated by God and by Reason: ’Dear daughter’: reform and persuasion in St. Teresa’s letters to her prioresses, Alison Weber; The religious warrior: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza’s correspondence with Rodrigo de Calderón, Elena Levy-Navarro; Form and persuasion in the correspondence of Argula von Grumbach, Peter Matheson; The French reception of Anna Maria van Schurman’s letters on women’s education (1646), Anne R. Larsen. Selected general bibliography; Index.

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