This book charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts in early modern England.

A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history.

This fascinating book - the first comprehensive study of reading and politics in early modern England - examines how texts of that period were produced and diss

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

This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading, provides a