The Paston women : selected letters

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Label

The Paston women : selected letters

Title remainder

selected letters

Statement of responsibility

tr. from the Middle English with introd., notes and interpretive essay [by] Diane Watt

Creator

• Paston letters.

Contributor

• Watt, Diane, 1965-

Subject

• England -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485 -- Sources
• English letters
• Great Britain -- History -- Henry VII, 1485-1509 -- Sources
• Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 -- Sources
• History
• Paston family -- Correspondence
• Personal correspondence
• Records and correspondence
• Women -- England -- Correspondence
• Women -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Sources
• Sources

Genre

• History
• Personal correspondence
• Correspondence
• Sources
• Records and correspondence

Language

• eng
• enm
• eng

Summary

"The Correspondence of the Pastons, a fifteenth-century Norfolk family, is one of only two substantial collections of letters and documents to have survived from the period, and is unique in the volume of women's correspondence it contains. This selection includes letters from three generations of Paston women: Agnes Paston, her daughter-in-law Margaret, and Margaret's own daughter-in-law Margery, together with correspondence from other women family members and associates. An introduction places the letters in the context of medieval women's writing and letter writing; the interpretive essay examines what the letters reveal about the lives of particular women - domestic responsibilities, education, piety, health, and female friendship - from an ambitious provincial family in the late middle ages."--Jacket

Member of

• Library of medieval women

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 942.04/092/2
• B

Index

index present

LC call number

DA240

LC item number

.P37 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Library of medieval women,