Womens work in early modern English literature and culture Labours of Love: Female Servants and the Marriage Plot The Spatial Syntax of Midwifery and Wetnursing Divine Drudgery: The Spiritual Logic of Housework Household Pedagogies: Female Educators and the Language of Legacy Dowd investigates literatures engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women