{"id":111,"date":"2013-10-15T11:52:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T10:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=111"},"modified":"2015-10-02T23:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T22:00:03","slug":"new-publication-the-cooke-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"New Publication: The Cooke Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cookesisters-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"cookesisters\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cookesisters-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cookesisters.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>Dr Gemma Allen&#8217;s new book,\u00a0<em>The Cooke Sisters: Education, Piety and Politics in Early Modern England<\/em>\u00a0(Manchester University Press), has just been published. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing particularly on their own writings, this book reconstructs for the first time the sisters&#8217; humanist education and reveals the extent of their religious and political agency.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Gemma Allen&#8217;s new book,\u00a0The Cooke Sisters: Education, Piety and Politics in Early Modern England\u00a0(Manchester University Press), has just been published. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on their own writings, this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=111\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Publication: The Cooke Sisters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}