Dr Jade Scott is a historical linguist and expert in Early Modern women's correspondence. Her research brings together approaches from historical pragmatics and gender and social history to examine women's linguistic agency. She is especially interested in multilingual communities of correspondence and has studied female Catholic exiles under Elizabeth I, code-switching in the letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, and most recently non-royal Scottish women before the death of James VI.

It deserves a careful read, not least to appreciate the underlying scholarship. As Percy herself advised in a postscript to a letter to William Cotton: 'Marke well what I write and ponder it depely' (p. 62). Scott's edition is a testament to the value of heeding such advice, to enable us to discover more about the lives and letters of women in the sixteenth century.

• Front matterIntroduction: Anne Percy and her lettersEarly life and marriage The Northern Rebellion of 1569Catholic faith Reconstructing Anne's networks The letters Editorial principlesList of lettersLetters of Anne PercySelect bibliographyIndex of peopleIndex of places

Dr Jade Scott is a historical linguist and expert in Early Modern women's correspondence. Her research brings together approaches from historical pragmatics and gender and social history to examine women's linguistic agency. She is especially interested in multilingual communities of correspondence and has studied female Catholic exiles under Elizabeth I, code-switching in the letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, and most recently non-royal Scottish women before the death of James VI.

It deserves a careful read, not least to appreciate the underlying scholarship. As Percy herself advised in a postscript to a letter to William Cotton: 'Marke well what I write and ponder it depely' (p. 62). Scott's edition is a testament to the value of heeding such advice, to enable us to discover more about the lives and letters of women in the sixteenth century.

• Front matterIntroduction: Anne Percy and her lettersEarly life and marriage The Northern Rebellion of 1569Catholic faith Reconstructing Anne's networks The letters Editorial principlesList of lettersLetters of Anne PercySelect bibliographyIndex of peopleIndex of places

Dr Jade Scott is a historical linguist and expert in Early Modern women's correspondence. Her research brings together approaches from historical pragmatics and gender and social history to examine women's linguistic agency. She is especially interested in multilingual communities of correspondence and has studied female Catholic exiles under Elizabeth I, code-switching in the letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, and most recently non-royal Scottish women before the death of James VI.

It deserves a careful read, not least to appreciate the underlying scholarship. As Percy herself advised in a postscript to a letter to William Cotton: 'Marke well what I write and ponder it depely' (p. 62). Scott's edition is a testament to the value of heeding such advice, to enable us to discover more about the lives and letters of women in the sixteenth century.

• Front matterIntroduction: Anne Percy and her lettersEarly life and marriage The Northern Rebellion of 1569Catholic faith Reconstructing Anne's networks The letters Editorial principlesList of lettersLetters of Anne PercySelect bibliographyIndex of peopleIndex of places