Some Sources of Evidence for Women's Lives in England, ca. 1300-1700

Author Hanawalt, Barbara
Title The wealth of wives : women, law, and economy in late medieval London / Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Main Collection  306.872 H233w 2007    AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-298) and index
Contents Daughters and identities -- Education and apprenticeship -- Inheritance, dowry, and dower -- The formation of marriage -- Recovery of dower and widows' remarriage -- For better or for worse : the marital experience -- Standard of living and women as consumers -- Women as entrepreneurs -- Servants, casual labor, and vendors
Subject Headings Women -- England -- London -- History -- To 1500
Women -- England -- London -- Economic conditions
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- London
England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485
Title Wife and widow in medieval England / edited by Sue Sheridan Walker
Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1993
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Main Collection  346.4201 W653    AVAILABLE
Description x, 221 p. ; 24 cm
Series Studies in medieval and early modern civilization
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents Widows and remarriage: moral conflicts and their resolution in classical canon law / James A. Brundage--Fifteenth-century widows and widowhood: bereavement, reintegration, and life choices / Joel T. Rosenthal--Rationabilis dos: Magna Carta and the widow's "fair share" in the earlier thirteenth century / Janet Senderowitz Loengard--Litigation as personal quest: suing for dower in the royal courts, circa 1272-1350 / Sue Sheridan Walker--Widows of war: Edward I and the women of Scotland during the War of Independence / Cynthia J. Neville--Remarriage as an option for urban and rural widows in late medieval England / Barbara A. Hanawalt--Married women's wills in later medieval England / Richard H. Helmholz--Female plaintiffs in marriage cases in the court of York in the later Middle Ages: what can we learn from the numbers? / Charles Donahue, Jr
Subject Headings Husband and wife -- England -- History
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History
Widows -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History
Women -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500
England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485
Author Stretton, Timothy, 1963-
Title Women waging law in Elizabethan England / Tim Stretton
Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Main Collection  346.4201 S915w    AVAILABLE
Description xv, 271 p. ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-264) and index
Subject Headings Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History -- 16th century
Justice, Administration of -- England -- History -- 16th century
Trials -- England
Author Gowing, Laura
Title Common bodies : women, touch, and power in seventeenth-century England / Laura Gowing
Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Main Collection  305.420942 G723c 2003    AVAILABLE
Description viii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-248) and index
Contents Uncertain knowledge -- The politics of touch -- Consent and desire -- "The child in me" -- Childbed conflicts -- Precarious parenthood
Subject Headings Women -- England -- Social conditions -- 17th century
Women -- England -- Sexual behavior -- History -- 17th century
Sexual ethics -- England -- History -- 17th century
Motherhood -- England -- History -- 17th century
Body, Human -- Social aspects
Author Frye, Susan, 1952-
Title Pens and needles : women's textualities in early modern England / Susan Frye
Publication Info. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Main Collection  704.042 F948p 2010    AVAILABLE
Description xx, 302 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm
Series Material texts
Material texts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-290) and index
Subject Headings Arts, English -- 16th century
Arts, English -- 17th century
Material culture -- Social aspects -- England
Women -- England -- Social conditions
Art and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
Art and society -- England -- History -- 17th century
Author Kemp, Theresa D
Title Women in the age of Shakespeare / Theresa D. Kemp
Publication Info. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press, c2010
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Main Collection  822.33 K325w 2010    AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 263 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Series The age of Shakespeare
Age of Shakespeare
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-254) and index
Contents Women in classical antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Women in Shakespeare's world -- Women in Shakespeare's works -- Shakespearean women in performance -- Scholarship and criticism -- Primary documents
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women
Subject Headings Women -- England -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600
Women -- England -- History -- 17th century
Women -- England -- Social conditions
Women in literature

 

Author Hill, Bridget
Title Women, work, and sexual politics in eighteenth-century England / Bridget Hill
Publication Info. Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1989
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Main Collection  331.4 H645w    AVAILABLE
Alternate Titles Women and work in 18th-century England
Description viii, 275 p. ; 24 cm
Notes Includes index
Subject Headings Women -- Employment -- England -- History -- 18th century
Home labor -- England -- History -- 18th century
Women in agriculture -- England -- History -- 18th century
Women -- England -- Social conditions