Women’’s Letters Across Europe, 1400-1700: Form and Persuasion

Jane Couchman is Associate Professor of French, Humanities and Women’s Studies at Glendon College, York University (Toronto). She has published articles and book chapters on the letters of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Huguenot women: Louise de Coligny, Catherine de Bourbon, Charlotte de Bourbon-Montpensier and Eléonore de Roye. Ann Crabb (History, James Madison University) is the author of The Strozzi of Florence: Widowhood and Family Solidarity in the Renaissance (University of Michigan Press, 2000). Her current research deals with the correspondence of Margherita Datini (1360-1418) and her circle in Prato and Florence, investigating both the form and the content of the letters.