Title: Pens and needles
Subtitle: women's textualities in early modern England
Description: "The Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or of the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and Needles is the first book to examine all these forms as interrelated products of self-fashioning and communication." (back cover).
Subjects: Art and society, English Arts, History, Material culture, Social aspects of Material culture, Social conditions, Women, Art, british, Women, great britain, Women, social conditions, Social aspects
Places: England
Time periods: 17th century, 16th century