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Making a saint out of a sibling / Susan D. Laningham -- Recusant sisters : English Catholic women and the bonds of learning / Kari Boyd McBride -- Families, convents, music : the power of sisterhood / Craig A. Monson -- 'Liebe Schwester ...' : sibling, convents, and the reformation / Merry Wiesner-Hanks -- Resisting Henri IV : Catherine de Bourbon and her brother / Jane Couchman -- Sister-subject/sister-queen : Elizabeth I among her siblings / Carole Levin -- Mary Sidney's other brothers / Margaret P. Hannay -- The politics of private discourse : familial relations in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania / Sheila T. Cavanaugh -- When the mirror lies : sisterhood reconsidered in Moderata Fonte's Thirteen cantos of Floridoro / Valeria Finucci -- Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli : musicians and sororal relations in later sixteenth century Venice / Rebecca Edwards -- The shame of siblings in David and Bethsabe / Stephen Guy-Bray -- Sibling bonds and bondage in (and beyond) Shakespeare's The tempest / Naomi J. Miller -- Playing the game : sisterly relations in Sofonisba Anguissola's The chess game / Naomi Yavneh -- "My deare sister" : sainted sisterhood in early modern England / Kathryn R. McPherson -- Sisterly feelings in Cavendish and Brackley's drama / Alison Findlay -- 'Thy passionately loving sister and faithfull friend': Anne Dormer's letters to her sister Lady Trumbull / Sara Mendelson and Mary O'Connor -- Siblings, publications, and the transmission of memory : Johann Albert Hinrich and Elise Reimarus / Almut Spalding -- Thicker than blood : l'oltr'altra / Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh. |
