The English Secretary

The English Secretary (originally The English Secretorie) is a book by the rhetorician Angel Day, first published in 1586. Among the most important manuals of letter writing in the 16th and 17th centuries,[1][2] the work combines influences from medieval practices and Renaissance humanism, and reflects the expansion of the reading public in Elizabethan England.[3]

References
  1. Angel Day, The English Secretary, and the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, by Robert Sean Brazil, Jefferson Foote (Editor), Lisa Duff (Illustrator)
  2. 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.
  3. 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.


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