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
Index
Copyright