The Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde: Volume 40 (Renaissance English Text Society) - Tapa dura

Butler, Elizabeth; Mcareavey, Naomi

 
9781649590183: The Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde: Volume 40 (Renaissance English Text Society)
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ISBN 10: 1649590180 ISBN 13: 9781649590183
Editorial: Iter Press, 2023

Sinopsis

This volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the most significant women in early modern Ireland, Elizabeth Butler, first Duchess of Ormonde. She was the wife of James Butler, twelfth Earl and first Duke of Ormonde, who, as Ireland’s only duke and three times its lord lieutenant, was a figure of considerable importance in seventeenth-century Ireland. But far from being overshadowed by her powerful husband, Butler was a person of significant power and influence in her own right. Descended from the tenth Earl of Ormonde, she brought a hefty portion of the Ormonde estate to the marriage. As Countess, Marchioness, then Duchess of Ormonde, as well as three times vicereine and a high-status courtier, she sat at the pinnacle of Irish and English society, unmatched by any other Irish woman of the period in terms of her wealth, social standing, and power. Her surviving correspondence reveals her importance within the Ormonde-Butler family and in the social, cultural, and political life of seventeenth-century Ireland.

The volume comprises more than three hundred letters written by Ormonde to her husband and family, agents and servants, and friends and clients. Spanning six decades, these letters are meticulously transcribed, edited, and annotated, and the volume includes a substantial scholarly introduction, family trees, a glossary, and other resources.

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Elizabeth Butler, née Preston (1615–1684), was the wife of James Butler, Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Naomi McAreavey is a lecturer of Renaissance literature at University College Dublin. She is coeditor, with Julie Eckerle, of Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland, and, with Fionnuala Dillane and Emilie Pine, of The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture.


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Editorial
Iter Press
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1649590180
ISBN 13 
9781649590183
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Número de páginas
440
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