The weaker vessel
Subtitle: Woman's lot in seventeenth-century England
By: Antonia Fraser
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781407215303
Subjects: Women; History; Social conditions; Modern period
Description: What were the women of the Civil War era like? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Antonia Fraser brings to life the many women she has researched.
Notes: Originally published London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984.