Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720
"Scholars interested in early modern women in England have finally gotten their long-awaited history reference book....Crawford and Mendelson's look at women's work is illuminating because it allows us to see, in very specific ways, how women always had to work....The work these women have done is both impressive and useful and, from what I have heard from other scholars, very much appreciated."--Sixteenth Century Journal"The first truly exhaustive study of women in England between about 1550 and 1725....The authors have created a readable, engaging, and useful text that will appeal to the educated general reader as much as it will to advanced undergraduates....Should be on every college library's purchase list."--Choice"Each chapter provides an exceedingly well written, intelligent, and nuanced analysis of the Englishwoman's world....the sheer breadth and sensitivity of the subject matter make this book an invaluable source....it is surely essential reading for all graduates and faculty studying either English history or early modern women's history."--History