Lady Jane Lumley’s Private Education and Its Political Resonances

In this chapter, Natália da Silva Perez focuses on Lady Jane LumleyJane Lumley, who lived in England in the middle of the sixteenth century. As a young member of a noble household close to the throne, her study practices were fomented and shaped by her family’s political aspirations and alignments, all the while remaining within the privateprivate circle of her family. In what follows, Silva Perez maps ideas that Lady Lumley articulated through translations and lettersletters that she wrote for her father as a young woman. In her texts, the private, the political, and the publicpublic appear not as distinct categories but are rather co-constructed as mutually interdependent.