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The Cooke Sisters: Education, Piety and Politics in Early Modern England (Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUP)The Cooke Sisters: Education, Piety and Politics in Early Modern England (Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUP)

The Cooke Sisters: Education, Piety and Politics in Early Modern England (Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUP)

Gemma Allen

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Drawing particularly on their own writings, provides a comprehensive analysis of the lives of the Cooke sisters, part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal Humanist education and well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians.

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OL19414691W

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Upper classWomen, great britainGreat britain, social conditionsWomen, educationGreat britain, civilizationGreat britain, politics and government, 1485-1603EducationWomen

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