The English Secretary

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]

References

  1. ^ Day, Angel (1586). The English Secretorie (1 ed.). London: Richard Jones.
  2. ^ Day, Angel (1599). The English Secretary (4 ed.). London: C. Burbie.
  3. ^ Brazil, Robert Sean (2013). Angel Day, The English Secretary, and the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford. Seattle: Cortical Output. ISBN 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. JSTOR 10.1525/rh.2008.26.3.267.
  5. ^ Barnes, Diana G. (2013). "Angel Day's Rhetoric for 'any learner' in The English Secretary". Epistolary Community in Print, 1580–1664. London: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 19–46: 19–20. ISBN 978-1409445357.


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