This concise introduction provides an overview of the state of research on women's history in the early modern period. It emcompasses a guide to the historiogra

This is an original, accessible, and comprehensive survey of life as it was experienced by most Englishwomen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The

This collection of essays examines women's involvement in politics in early modern England, as writers, as members of kinship and patronage networks, and as pet

This book explores the construction of gender ideology in early modern England through an analysis of the querelle des femmes - the debate about the relationshi

This fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middling sort and their domestic space in the tumultuous,