Sara Read

Broschiertes Buch

Maids, Wives, Widows

Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives, 1540-1714

Beschreibung

A colourful account of different aspects of women's lives from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, covering everything from beauty products to childbirth; housework to hygiene.

Autor

Dr Sara Read is a lecturer in English at Loughborough University. She holds a PhD in early modern literature. Her particular interest is in representations of the female body in literature and she has published widely in this field. Her first book Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013, and she has co-edited a collection of early modern women's writings on the topic of health and spirituality called Flesh and Spirit: An Anthology of Seventeenth-century Women's Writing for Manchester University Press, 2014. In addition, Dr Read has published a number of social history articles for Discover Your Ancestors magazine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 234mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781399023207
• ISBN-10: 1399023209
• Artikelnr.: 68834100