''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
The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The Roman symbol of Britannia (a female per ...
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References
External links
*Angel Day
''The English Secretorie'' (1586)at the EEBO/TCP.
*Angel Day
at the Gutenberg Project (HTML).
*Angel Day
''The English Secretary'' (1599)at Gallica (PDF).
1586 books
Rhetoric works
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