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Breaking Barriers of Genre and Gender: Margaret Tyler's Translation of The Mirrour of Knighthood

IN 1578, approximately midway between the publication of Isabella Whitney’s The Copy of a Letter . . . to her unconstant Lover (1566-1567) and Jane Anger’s Protection for Women (1589), Margaret Tyler published her translation of the Spanish romance, The Mirrour of Princely deedes and Knighthood.’ As in the case of other women writers of this period, very little is known about Tyler, but from the Dedication and the Preface to her translation it appears that she had been a servant in the household of the parents of Lord Howard? From the same documents we also gather that she was probably advanced in years when she engaged in translating and that she had been an early reader of romances? Unfortunately, no other information is available. It seems amazing that an ex-servant could know so thoroughly a foreign vernacular language that was rarely studied even by educated men of her time. Although diplomatic and commercial ties with Spain had existed ever since the days of Catherine of Aragon, it was not until the defeat of the Armada in 1588 that Spanish as a language gained some currency. Prior