Virtuous necessity : conduct literature and the making of the virtuous woman in early modern England /
"While many scholars find the early modern triad of virtues for women--silence, chastity, and obedience--to be straightforward and nonnegotiable, Jessica C. Murphy demonstrates that these virtues were by no means as direct and inflexible as they might seem. Drawing on the literature of the peri...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2015]
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