{"product_id":"pens-and-needles-9780812206982","title":"Pens and Needles","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. \u003ci\u003ePens and Needles\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to examine all these forms as interrelated products of self-fashioning and communication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause early modern people saw verbal and visual texts as closely related, Susan Frye discusses the connections between the many forms of women's textualities, including notes in samplers, alphabets both stitched and penned, initials, ciphers, and extensive texts like needlework pictures, self-portraits, poetry, and pamphlets, as well as commissioned artwork, architecture, and interior design. She examines works on paper and cloth by such famous figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Bess of Hardwick, as well as the output of journeywomen needleworkers and miniaturists Levina Teerlinc and Esther Inglis, and their lesser-known sisters in the English colonies of the New World. Frye shows how traditional women's work was a way for women to communicate with one another and to shape their own identities within familial, intellectual, religious, and historical traditions. \u003ci\u003ePens and Needles\u003c\/i\u003e offers insights into women's lives and into such literary texts as Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCymbeline\u003c\/i\u003e and Mary Sidney Wroth's \u003ci\u003eUrania\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susan Frye","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48295596130555,"sku":"9780812206982","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780812206982.jpg?v=1772482772","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/pens-and-needles-9780812206982","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}