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Drawing particularly on their own writings, provides a comprehensive analysis of the lives of the Cooke sisters, part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal Humanist education and well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians.

Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Education --- Killigrew, Katherine, --- Russell, Elizabeth Cooke Hoby, --- Rowlett, Margaret Cooke, --- Bacon, Anne Cooke, --- Burghley, Mildred Cooke Cecil, --- Cooke sisters' classical learning. --- Cooke sisters' education. --- Cooke sisters' reading. --- Elizabethan diplomacy. --- Elizabethan politics. --- Tudor political culture. --- female counsel. --- female humanists. --- humanist education. --- learned women. --- mid-sixteenth-century England. --- political activities. --- religion. --- sixteenth-century women. --- stereotype.