Invisible agents : women and espionage in seventeenth-century Britain
Espionage, British Women spies Women e-böcker
OUP Oxford
2018
First edition.
EISBN 9780192555830
Introduction: Invisible agents, she-intelligencers or spies invisible by birth.
Ciphered pillow talk with King Charles I in prison, 1646-9: 'intrigues, which at that time could be best managed and carried on by ladies'.
The credibility and archival silence of she-intelligencers: women on the Council of State's payroll.
Susan Hyde, a spy's gendered fate and punishment: hide and seek the sealed knot.
Elizabeth Murray, loyal subject, lover, or double agent? Rumour, hearsay, and the Sins of the Father.
Elizabeth Murray's continental foray: incompetence, invisible inks, and internal wrangling.
Elizabeth Carey, Lady Mordaunt: the 'enigma' of the Great Trust.
Anne, Lady Halkett's 'true accountt': a married woman is never to blame.
Aphra Behn's letters from Antwerp, July 1666-April 1667: intelligence reports or epistolary fiction?.
Epilogue: Invisibility and Blanck Marshall, the nameless and genderless agent: spies are best disguised as women
Ciphered pillow talk with King Charles I in prison, 1646-9: 'intrigues, which at that time could be best managed and carried on by ladies'.
The credibility and archival silence of she-intelligencers: women on the Council of State's payroll.
Susan Hyde, a spy's gendered fate and punishment: hide and seek the sealed knot.
Elizabeth Murray, loyal subject, lover, or double agent? Rumour, hearsay, and the Sins of the Father.
Elizabeth Murray's continental foray: incompetence, invisible inks, and internal wrangling.
Elizabeth Carey, Lady Mordaunt: the 'enigma' of the Great Trust.
Anne, Lady Halkett's 'true accountt': a married woman is never to blame.
Aphra Behn's letters from Antwerp, July 1666-April 1667: intelligence reports or epistolary fiction?.
Epilogue: Invisibility and Blanck Marshall, the nameless and genderless agent: spies are best disguised as women
