The English Secretary (originally The English Secretorie) is a book by the rhetorician Angel Day, first published in 1586. Among the most notable and popular manuals of letter writing in the 16th and 17th centuries, the work combines influences from medieval practices and Renaissance humanism, and reflects the expansion of the reading public in Elizabethan England.
References
- Day, Angel (1586). The English Secretorie (1 ed.). London: Richard Jones.
- Day, Angel (1599). The English Secretary (4 ed.). London: C. Burbie.
- Brazil, Robert Sean (2013). Angel Day, The English Secretary, and the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford. Seattle: Cortical Output. ISBN 978-0985393816.
- 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
- Angel Day, The English Secretorie (1586) at the EEBO/TCP.
- Angel Day, The English Secretary (1599) at the Gutenberg Project (HTML).
- Angel Day, The English Secretary (1599) at Gallica (PDF).
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