James Daybell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Plymouth. He is the editor of Early Modern Women's Letter-Writing, 1450-1700 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001; winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women award for best collaborative project, 2002), and Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450-1700 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), and has published numerous articles on early modern social and cultural history.