Fighting for Family in a Patronage Society: the Epistolary Armoury of Anne Newdigate (1574–1618)
Fighting for Family in a Patronage Society: the Epistolary Armoury of Anne Newdigate (1574–1618)
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在赞助协会中为家庭而战:安妮·纽迪盖特(Anne Newdigate,1574-1618)的书信库
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10.1057/9780230598669_7
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2001
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Vivienne Larminie
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作者:
Vivienne Larminie
Over the last 20 years or so, the recovery of an impressive and expanding corpus of women’s writing and the emergence, piecemeal, of evidence relating to individual female experience of childhood and youth, has to a modest degree revised upwards estimates of girls’ access to academic learning in the early modern period.1Nonetheless, even among the social elite, the nature and extent of the early education of many women remains unknown, and, given the frustrating lacunae of the available sources, may seem often destined to remain so.2Anne (Fitton) Newdigate’s formation is at first sight a case in point. There is no direct evidence, as there is for the next generation of Fitton girls, that a governess or tutor was employed; it is not known whether she learned any foreign languages, or even if she spent any extended period in a household other than her own.3What is clear, however, is that she was educated.