First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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

This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters

This study examines women’s prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of social transformation that integrates

How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available for medical self-help? To what extent did hou