The English Secretary Explained

The English Secretary (originally The English Secretorie) is a book by the rhetorician Angel Day, first published in 1586.[1] [2] Among the most notable and popular manuals of letter writing in the 16th and 17th centuries,[3] [4] the work combines influences from medieval practices and Renaissance humanism, and reflects the expansion of the reading public in Elizabethan England.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Day . Angel . The English Secretorie . 1586 . Richard Jones . London . 1.
  2. Book: Day . Angel . The English Secretary . 1599 . C. Burbie . London . 4.
  3. Book: Brazil . Robert Sean . Angel Day, The English Secretary, and the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford . 2013 . Cortical Output . Seattle . 978-0985393816.
  4. Newbold. W. Webster. 2008. Traditional, Practical, Entertaining: Two Early English Letter Writing Manuals. Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric. 26. 3. 267–300: 270. 10.1525/rh.2008.26.3.267.
  5. Book: Barnes, Diana G.. 2013. Angel Day's Rhetoric for 'any learner' in The English Secretary. Epistolary Community in Print, 1580–1664. London. Ashgate Publishing. 19–46: 19–20. 978-1409445357.

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