Article: Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England.(Review)

Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England Edited by Susan Frye and Karen Robertson Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999

Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens is a sustained attempt to recover from texts of the early modern period, both literary and nonliterary, histories of women functioning not only as isolated, unusual individuals but also as members of female networks and alliances. Some of them examine representations of female bonding in dramas by Shakespeare, Jonson, Dekker and Webster, and the anonymous author of Swetnam the Woman-hater; some of them examine groupings of actual women such as London ...

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