Table of contents
Acknowledgementsix
1. Introduction
2. The familial backdrop: Short biographies of the Thynne women
3. ‘Mouths have become hands’: Holograph vs. scribal utterance
4. Ruling epistolary prose: Punctuation and textual-utterance markers
5. Everyday magic verbs: Performative utterances
6. Utterance, power and politeness: The letter exchange between Joan Thynne and Lucy Audley
7. Sincerity, seriousness and ironic subversions: The attitudes of utterance in the letters of Maria Thynne, c.1601–1610
8. Conclusions and future directions
Bibliography
Appendix
Index
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