Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain [First edition, impression: 4] 9780198823018, 9780192555847, 0198823010

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English Pages XXII, 264 pagina's, 8 ongenummerde pagina's platen : illustraties ; 25 cm Year 2018

Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain [First edition, impression: 4]
9780198823018, 9780192555847, 0198823010

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Nadine Niessina Willemijn

Table of contents :
Introduction: Invisible Agents, She-Intelligencers, or Spies Invisible by Birth 1. Ciphered Pillow Talk with Charles I in Prison, 1646-1649: 'intrigues, which at that time could be best managed and carried on by ladies' 2. The Credibility and Archival Silence of She-Intelligencers: Women on the Council of State's Payroll 3. Susan Hyde. a Spy's Gendered Fate Punishment: Hide and Seek the Sealed Knot 4.I Elizabeth Murray, Loyal Subject, Lover or Double Agent?: Rumour, Hearsay and the Sins of the Father 4.II Elizabeth Murray's Continental Foray: Incompetence, Invisible Inks, and Internal Wrangling 5. Elizabeth Carey, Lady Mordaunt: The 'Enigma' of the Great Trust 6. Anne, Lady Halkett's 'True Accountt': A Married Woman Is Never to Blame 7. Aphra Behn's Letters from Antwerp, July 1666-April 1667: Intelligence Reports or Epistolary Fiction?Epilogue: Invisibility and Blanck Marshall, the Nameless and Genderless Agent Bibliography Index

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