''The English Secretary'' (originally ''The English Secretorie'') is a book by the rhetorician

Angel Day Angel Day was an Elizabethan rhetorician and scholar chiefly known for his '' The English Secretary'' (1586), the first comprehensive epistolary manual to employ original English rather than classical models. The book belongs to the genre of ins ...

, first published in 1586. Among the most important manuals of letter writing in the 16th and 17th centuries, the work combines influences from medieval practices and

Renaissance humanism Renaissance humanism was a revival in the study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. During the period, the term ''humanist'' ( it, umanista) referred to teache ...

, and reflects the expansion of the reading public in

Elizabethan England The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The symbol of Britannia (a female personific ...

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''The English Secretorie''
at Folger Shakespeare Library

at Brigham Young University 1586 books Rhetoric works {{lit-book-stub