Download or read book Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty written by P. Pender and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet.