The English Secretary

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

References[]

^ Angel Day, The English Secretary, and the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, by Robert Sean Brazil, Jefferson Foote (Editor), Lisa Duff (Illustrator)
^ 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.
^ 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.

External links[]

The English Secretorie at Folger Shakespeare Library
Angel Day, The English Secretary (1599) at Brigham Young University

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[1] Angel Day, The English Secretary, and the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, by Robert Sean Brazil, Jefferson Foote (Editor), Lisa Duff (Illustrator)

[2] 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.

[3] 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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