First comprehensive introduction to women's role in, and access to, literary culture in early modern Britain.

"This volume contains the edited proceedings from the 1990 symposium "Attending to Women in Early Modern England," which was sponsored by the Center for Renaiss

Women in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historicall

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 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