Anne Dormer (letter-writer)

Anne Dormer (née Cotterell) (c. 1648–1695), was the wife of Robert Dormer (1628?–1689) of Rousham in Oxfordshire.^[1] Her correspondence with her sister Elizabeth have been used in several recent histories on the domestic concerns of seventeenth century women and their legal and romantic relationships with men (part of the study of women's history).^[2][3][4]

Anne was the daughter of Sir Charles Cotterell and sister of Elizabeth (or Katherine) who married Sir William Trumbull (who went on diplomatic missions to Paris and Constantinople, and was later Secretary of State).^[5][6] Anne married Robert Dormer of Rousham in Oxfordshire.^[7] James Dormer (1679–1741) was their son.^[8]

Notes

1. O'Connor 2009.
2. Crawford & Gowing 2000.
3. Mendelson 2005.
4. Mendelson 2008.
5. Mendelson 2008, p. 153.
6. "Elizabeth (or Katherine)" (O'Connor 2009)
7. Crawford & Gowing 2000, p. 37.
8. Spain, Jonathan. "Dormer, James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7835. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

References

• Crawford, Patricia M.; Gowing, Laura (2000). Women's worlds in seventeenth-century England (illustrated ed.). Routledge. p. 37. ISBN 0-415-15638-6.
• Mendelson, Sarah Heller (2005). "Are Married Women persons? The "Rational" Arguments of Anne Dormer". In Jancke, Gabriele; Ulbric, Claudia. Vom Individuum zur Person. 10. Wallstein Verlag. pp. 128–144. ISBN 978-3-89244-899-0.
• Mendelson, Sara (2008). "Chapter Nine: Neighbourhood as Female Community in the Life of Anne Dormer". In Broomhall, Susan; Tarbin, Stephanie. Women, identities and communities in early modern Europe (illustrated ed.). Ashgate Publishing. pp. 153–164. ISBN 0-7546-6184-9.
• O'Connor, Mary E. (May 2009) [2004]. "Dormer , Anne (1648?–1695)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66726.