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27 ‘Mistresses of Tongues’: Early Modern Englishwomen, Multilingual Practice, and Translingual Communication
Get accessBrenda M. Hosington, Professor of Translation Studies (now retired) at the Université de Montréal, is at present Research Fellow at the University of Warwick and Senior Research Fellow at University College London. She has published widely on medieval and Renaissance translation. She co-edited Renaissance Cultural Crossroads. Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473–1640 (Brill, 2013) and Thresholds of Translation. Paratexts, Print, and Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Britain (1473–1660) (Palgrave, 2018). Her guest-edited special issues of journals are Translation and Print Culture in Early Modern Europe (Renaissance Studies, 2015) and Issues in Translation Then and Now: Renaissance Theories and Translation Studies Today (Renaessanceforum, 2018). Two co-edited special issues to be published in 2019 are Transformative Translations: Textual, Material, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern England (Renaissance and Reformation) and ‘Transformissions’: Linguistic, Material and Cultural Transfer in England and France (c. 1470–1660) (Canadian Review of Comparative Literature). Finally, she is the creator and principal editor of Renaisssance Cultural Crossroads: An Online Catalogue of Translations in Britain 1473–1640 and co-creator and co-editor of the online Cultural Crosscurrents Catalogue of Translations in Stuart and Commonwealth Britain 1641–1660. In the field of neo-Latin studies, she has published on translation history and on women writers and translators. Her co-edited book, Elizabeth Jane Weston Complete Writings (2000), won the Josephine Roberts award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Brenda Hosington has been the recipient of various research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the British Council, and the Bibliographical Society, and she has held the William Ringler, Jrn. and Mayers Fellowship at the Huntington Library. Finally, she has served as: President, International Association for Neo-Latin Studies; President, Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies; Assistant General Secretary, Fédération internationale des langues et littératures modernes; Member, Advisory Board of the Neo-Latin Society; Member, editorial boards of Moreana and Florilegium.
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Published:19 December 2022
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Abstract
In the 1673 pamphlet, An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen in Religion, Manner, Arts & Tongues, the phrase ‘mistresses of Tongues’ alludes to women’s linguistic abilities but also to the proverbial slur, ‘one tongue is enough for a Woman’. This chapter explores this binary concept of women and language in three areas: foreign language learning; translation; and the paratextual discourse accompanying female-authored translations. It also argues that anxieties concerning female speech surface in various ways in male-authored manuals, often circumscribing the female student in a domestic sphere. This chapter provides an overview of women’s translations in the years c 1500–1660. It concentrates on a few specific translators and the ways in which translation enabled connections with other language communities and cultures. Finally, it discusses how some women translators perceive their linguistic abilities and the importance of their translations as a tool for reaching beyond temporal and geographical borders.
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