Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Wayne, Valerie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books, from those who worked in the book trade to those who composed, selected, collected and annotated books. Women gathered rags for paper production, invested in books and oversaw the presses that printed them. Their writing and reading had an impact on their contemporaries and the developing literary canon. A focus on women's work enables these essays to recognize the various forms of labour -- textual and social as well as material and commercial -- that women of different social classes engaged in. Those considered include the very poor, the middling sort who were active in the book trade, and the elite women authors and readers who participated in literary communities. Taken together, these essays convey the impressive work that women accomplished and their frequent collaborations with others in the making, marking, and marketing of early modern English books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350110021
• Artikelnr.: 59166969

Autorenporträt

Valerie Wayne is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Note on Texts List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Locating Women's Labour Valerie Wayne
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
USA Part One: Making Books: Paper
Publishers
Printers 2. English Rag-women and Early Modern Paper Production Heidi Craig
Texas A&M University
USA
and Editor
World Shakespeare Bibliography 3. Widow Publishers in London
1540 - 1640 Alan B. Farmer
Ohio State University
USA 4. Female Stationers and Their Second-plus Husbands Sarah Neville
Ohio State University
USA 5. Left to Their Own Devices: Sixteenth-century Widows and their Printers' Devices Erika Boeckeler
Northeastern University
USA 6. 'Famed as far as one finds books': Women in the Dutch and English Book Trade Martine van Elk
California State University
Long Beach
USA Part Two: Making Texts: Authors and Editors 7. Isabella Whitney amongst the Stalls of Richard Jones Kirk Melnikoff
University of North Carolina
Charlotte
USA 8.'All by her directing': The Countess of Pembroke and her Arcadia Sarah Wall-Randell
Wellesley College
USA 9. Katharine Lee Bates and Women's Editions of Shakespeare for Students Molly Yarn
Independent Scholar
USA Part Three: Marking Books: Owners
Readers
Collectors
Annotators 10. Patterns in Women's Book Ownership
1500 - 1700 Georgianna Ziegler
Folger Shakespeare Library
USA 11. Reader
Maker
Mentor: The Countess of Huntingdon and her Networks Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
Ohio State University
USA 12. Frances Wolfreston's Annotations as Labours of Love Lori Humphrey Newcomb
University of Illinois
USA 13. Afterword: Widows
Orphans and Other Errors Helen Smith
University of York
UK Index