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It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde,…
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I must admit I bought this book for purely professional interest because my own new book project deals with women and espionage.
As with all such works, I quote Nadine Akkerman, "the debt owed to those who have already prepared the ground is immense". It is hard to express my gratitude in better words. My time to study it and my expenses were fully justified because the book is very well-researched and well-written and at least for me it contains plenty of absolutely new useful material for my own work.
Indeed, with the exception of Mata Hari (and, er, well,…
A few years ago I spoke at the London History Festival alongside Nadine Akkerman, and we realised how much the female spies of 17c Britain and the Second World War had in common, not only conveniently overlooked in their own day, but also disregarded subsequently. This brilliant study explores the gendered dimension of early modern spycraft.
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