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Women's labour and the history of the book in early modern England
Title
Women's labour and the history of the book in early modern England [electronic resource] / edited by Valerie Wayne.
ISBN
9781350110021
1350110027
Publication
London : The Arden Shakespeare, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource ( 274 pages)
Local Notes
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 15, 2020).
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Print version: Wayne, Valerie Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2020
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 28, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Intro
Half-Title Page
Series
Title Page
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Note on texts
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction: Locating women's labour
Part I Making books: Paper, publishers, printers
2 English rag-women and early modern paper production
3 Widow publishers in London, 1540-1640
4 Female stationers and their second-plus husbands
5 Left to their own devices: Sixteenth-century widows and their printers' devices
6 'Famed as far as one finds books': Women in the Dutch and English book trades
Part II Making texts: Authors and editors
7 Isabella Whitney amongst the stalls of Richard Jones
8 'All by her directing': The Countess of Pembroke and her Arcadia
9 Katharine Lee Bates and women's editions of Shakespeare for students
Part III Marking books: Owners, readers, collectors, annotators
10 Patterns in women's book ownership, 1500-1700
11 Reader, maker, mentor: The Countess of Huntingdon and her networks
12 Frances Wolfreston's annotations as labours of love
13 Afterword: Widows, orphans and other errors
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