Description
Women's Worlds in Seventeenth Century England
A Sourcebook
Coordinators: Crawford Patricia, Gowing Laura
Language: EnglishSubjects for Women's Worlds in Seventeenth Century England:
Keywords
Young Man; mental worlds; Somerset Archives; seventeenth-century England; Sunday; Catholic spirituality; Lord’s Day; political activities; Examinant Saith; Women's worlds; Married Women; CPH; Consistory Court; Pepys Ballads; Somerset Quarter Sessions; Carnal Knowledge; Fullest Sources; Pepys Library; Jane Sharp; Staffordshire Quarter Sessions; Thomas Creede; ASSI; Quarter Sessions; Henry Rich; Middlesex County Records; Sarah Jinner; Friends House Library; Widow Gay; Burrow Hills; Alice Curwen
Publication date: 11-1999
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 11-2015
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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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 Drawing on unpublished, archival materials, Women's Worlds explores the everyday lives of ordinary early modern women, including their:
* experiences of work, sex, marriage and motherhood
* beliefs and spirituality
* political activities
* relationships
* mental worlds
In a time when few women could write, this book reveals the multitude of ways in which their voices and experiences leave traces in the written record, and deepens and challenges our understanding of womens lives in the past.