Focusing on both literary and material networks in early modern England, this book examines the nature of women's wealth, its peculiar laws of transmission and

During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and pri

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clot

The fictional world of women in the time of Jane Austen set in the context of social and economic reality.

Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern England documents the extent to which portrayals of women writers, rulers, and leaders in the Hebrew Bible scripted the