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  • Ingenious Trade

    Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London

    de Laura Gowing ...
    Ingenious Trade recovers the intricate stories of the young women who came to London in the late seventeenth century to earn their own living, most often with the needle, and the mistresses who set up shops and supervised their apprenticeships. Tracking women through city archives, it reveals the extent and complexity of their contracts, training and skills, from adolescence to old age. In ... Leer más

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  • Common Bodies

    Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England

    de Laura Gowing ...
    This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature, and detailed legal records from courts that were obsessively concerned with regulating morals, the book recaptures seventeenth-century popular understandings of sex and reproduction. This history of the female body is ... Leer más

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  • Gender in Early Modern England

    de Laura Gowing ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    This concise and stimulating book explores the history of gender in England between 1500 and 1700. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to include new material on global connections, masculinity and recent historiography.Amid the upheavals of the Reformation and Civil Wars, gender was political. Sexual difference and women’s roles were matters of public debate, while social and economic ... Leer más

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  • Women's Worlds in Seventeenth Century England

    A Sourcebook

    Edición de Patricia Crawford, Laura Gowing ...
    Women's Worlds in England presents a unique collection of source materials on women's lives in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. The book introduces a wonderfully diverse group of women and a series of voices that have rarely been heard in history, from Deborah Brackley, a poor Devon servant, to Katharine Whitstone, Oliver Cromwell's sister, and Queen Anne. Drawing on unpublished, ... Leer más

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    Womens Worlds in England presents a unique collection of source materials on womens lives in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. The book introduces a wonderfully diverse group of women and a series of voices that have rarely been heard in history, Drawing on unpublished, archival materials, the book explores women's:* experiences of work, sex, marriage and motherhood* beliefs and ... Leer más

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    Series series Modern Library Classics
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  • Old, Bold and Won’t Be Told

    Shakespeare’s Amazing Ageing Ladies

    de Yvonne Oram ...
    Old women in Early Modern plays are stereotypically presented as ugly, randy, mouthy, mad. So Shakespeare is rare among dramatists of the day for his lively and empowering depictions of ageing ladies. This well-researched, accessible book looks at the way his old women subvert the stereotypes. There is particular focus on Paulina in The Winter’s Tale as a uniquely powerful old woman. ... Leer más

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  • Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England

    Series series Women And Men In History
    This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history courses which is taught at most universities. This text gives readers an overview of how feminist historians have been interpreting the history of the family, ever since Laurence Stone's seminal work FAMILY, SEX AND MARRIAGE IN ... Leer más

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  • Hidden Shakespeare

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    On 26th April 1564, William Shakespeare was baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon. He would go on to be the greatest writer who ever lived. In Hidden Shakespeare, Nicholas Fogg explores Shakespeare's life, from his family background and education in Stratford, through his career in London, to 1616, when he finally shuffled off this mortal coil. Fogg examines the circumstances and stories surrounding ... Leer más

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  • Shakespeare's Wife

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  • Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

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