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Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world for alas tis not so, I am alive and … as nearly concern’d for thos I love as if I had never left them and must shar in all ther fortunes wither good or bad.1
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Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, ‘Authority, Authenticity, and the Publication of Letters by Women’, in Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature, Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, ed. (London: Pinter Publishers, 1989), pp. 46–59; Helen Wilcox, ‘Private Writing and Public Function: Autobiographical Texts by Renaissance Englishwomen’, in Gloriana’s Face: Women, Public and Private in the English Renaissance, eds S. P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester, 1992), pp. 47–62; Karen Cherewatuk and Ulrike Wiethaus, eds, Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, ‘Writing Resistance in Letters: Arbella Stuart and the Rhetoric of Disguise and Defiance’, in Writing Women in Jacobean England (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), pp. 67–92; C. Bowden, ‘Women as Intermediaries: an Example of the Use of Literacy in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries’, History of Education, 22 (1993), 215–23; Alison Wall, ‘Elizabethan Precept and Feminine Practice: the Thynne Family of Longleat’, History, 75 (1990), 23–38.
Debra L. Stoudt, ‘The Production and Preservation of Letters by Fourteenth-Century Dominican Nuns’, Mediaeval Studies, 53 (1991), 309–26.
Tixall Letters: or the Correspondence of the Aston Family, and their Friends during the Seventeenth Centwy, ed. Arthur Clifford (1815); Dom Justin McCann OSB, ‘Some Benedictine Letters in The Bodleian’, The Downside Review, 30 (1931), 465–81; Michael J. Galgano, ‘Negotiations for a Nun’s Dowry: Restoration Letters of Mary Caryll, OSB and Ann Clifton, OSB’, American Benedictine Review, 24 (1973), 278–98; Margaret J. Mason, ‘Nuns of the Jerningham Letters: Elizabeth Jerningham (1727–1807) and Frances Henrietta Jerningham (1745–1824), Augustinian Canonesses of Bruges’, RH, 22 (1995), 350–69; Margaret J. Mason, ‘Nuns of the Jerningham Letters: the Hon. Catherine Dillon (1752–1797) and Anne Neville (1754–1824), Benedictines at Bodney Hall’, RH, 23 (1996), 34–78.
Isobel Grundy, ‘Women’s History? Writings by English Nuns’, in Women, Writing, History 1640–1740, eds Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman (London: Batsford, 1992), pp. 134–5; Dorothy L. Latz, ‘Neglected Writings by Recusant Women’, in Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, International Medieval Congress. Recusant Sessions (1990–1994): Western Michigan University (Salzburg: Institut fur Anglistik und Americkanistik, 1997), pp. 28–33; C. Bowden, ‘The Abbess and Mrs Brown: Lady Mary Knatchbull and Royalist Politics in Flanders in the late 1650s’, RH, 24 (1999), 288–308.
For a detailed discussion of foundation patterns and the reasons for establishing the cloisters, see my forthcoming book, Gender and Politics in Seventeenth-Century English Convents (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
These figures relate only to the contemplative cloisters which survived the seventeenth century. Houses belonging to Mary Ward’s Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary are not included.
The Chronicle of the English Augustinian Canonesses ... at St Monica’s in Louvain, 2 vols, ed. Adam Hamilton (Sands, 1904, 1906); Isobel Grundy discusses the links between families and nuns in ‘Writings by English Nuns’, pp. 135–7.
For example, ‘The English Benedictine Nuns of ... Paris’, ed. Joseph Hanson, in Miscellanea VII (Catholic Record Society, 1911), pp. 339–40, 350–3, 365–6, 372–3; ‘Obituary Notices of the English Benedictine Nuns of Ghent’, in Miscellanea XI (Catholic Record Society, 1917), pp. 13–14, 16–17, 47–9, 54–5; C.S. Durrant, A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs (London: Burns, Oats and Washbourne, 1925), pp. 271–306.
Cited in Edward S. Worrall, ‘Henry Garnet and White Webbs House’, Essex Recusant, 8 (1966), 108.
Hugh Bowler, ‘The Caryll Letter’, The Month, 161 (1933), 265–71.
See the letters of Catherine Aston and Constantia Fowler in Tixall Letters. This point is discussed briefly by Patricia Crawford in ‘Friendship and Love between Women in Early Modern England’ in Venus and Mars: Engendering Love and War in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds Andrew Lynch and Philippa Maddern (Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1995), p. 53. For a fuller discussion of the Aston Thimelby correspondence, see Julie Sanders, ‘Tixall Revisited: the Coterie Writings of the Astons and the Thimelbys in Seventeenth-Century Staffordshire’, Staffordshire Studies (forthcoming).
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Walker, C. (2001). ‘Doe not supose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world’: Letter-Writing in Early Modern English Convents. In: Daybell, J. (eds) Early Modern Women’s Letter Writing, 1450–1700. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598669_11
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