Author: David C. Sutton
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. Sutton
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Invisible Agents
Author: Nadine Akkerman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192555839
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, during the turbulent decades of civil strife in Britain can escape the historiographer's gaze, then how many more like her lurk in the archives? Nadine Akkerman's search for an answer to this question has led to the writing of Invisible Agents, the very first study to analyse the role of early modern women spies, demonstrating that the allegedly-male world of the spy was more than merely infiltrated by women. This compelling and ground-breaking contribution to the history of espionage details a series of case studies in which women - from playwright to postmistress, from lady-in-waiting to laundry woman - acted as spies, sourcing and passing on confidential information on account of political and religious convictions or to obtain money or power. The struggle of these women to construct credibility in their own time is mirrored in their invisibility in modern historiography. Akkerman has immersed herself in archives, libraries, and private collections, transcribing hundreds of letters, breaking cipher codes and their keys, studying invisible inks, and interpreting riddles, acting as a modern-day spymistress to unearth plots and conspiracies that have long remained hidden by history.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192555839
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, during the turbulent decades of civil strife in Britain can escape the historiographer's gaze, then how many more like her lurk in the archives? Nadine Akkerman's search for an answer to this question has led to the writing of Invisible Agents, the very first study to analyse the role of early modern women spies, demonstrating that the allegedly-male world of the spy was more than merely infiltrated by women. This compelling and ground-breaking contribution to the history of espionage details a series of case studies in which women - from playwright to postmistress, from lady-in-waiting to laundry woman - acted as spies, sourcing and passing on confidential information on account of political and religious convictions or to obtain money or power. The struggle of these women to construct credibility in their own time is mirrored in their invisibility in modern historiography. Akkerman has immersed herself in archives, libraries, and private collections, transcribing hundreds of letters, breaking cipher codes and their keys, studying invisible inks, and interpreting riddles, acting as a modern-day spymistress to unearth plots and conspiracies that have long remained hidden by history.
Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook
Author: National Library of Australia
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642106964
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642106964
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Selections from Cobbett's Political Works
Author: William Cobbett
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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New England Farmer
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Cobbett's Political Register
Author: William Cobbett
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register
Author: William Cobbett
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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A photo reprint of Cobbett's radical journal.
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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A photo reprint of Cobbett's radical journal.
Cobbett's Political Register
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2078
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2078
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The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1594
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1594
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