'Scruples and ceremonies' : Lady Brilliana Harley's epistolary combat

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Harris, Johanna. (2012). 'Scruples and ceremonies' : Lady Brilliana Harley's epistolary combat. Parergon : Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 29(2), pp. 93-112. https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2012.0099
AuthorsHarris, Johanna
Abstract

Lady Brilliana Harley’s valiant defence of Brampton Bryan during its royalist besiegement in the summer of 1643 has been widely celebrated in women’s history. However, her deliberate, strategic, and highly rhetorical use of letter writing to conduct this military resistance deserves wider literary attention. Harley was already a prolific writer of letters by 1643, but in these understudied letter exchanges during wartime she activates a more precise knowledge of the rhetorical apparatus underlying the epistolary genre than seen previously, effectively transforming her letters and sense of authorship into her own militarized mode of Civil War combat.

KeywordsLady Brilliana Harley; Brampton Bryan Castle (England); English Civil War; rhetoric; Women--Authorship ; Letter writing
Year01 Jan 2012
JournalParergon : Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Journal citation29 (2), pp. 93-112
PublisherAustralian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
ISSN0313-6221
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2012.0099
Web address (URL)https://muse.jhu.edu/article/498945
Research or scholarlyResearch
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