Women's labour and the history of the book in early modern England / edited by Valerie Wayne.
Published / Created:
London ; New York : The Arden Shakespeare, 2020.
Physical Description:
xiv, 318 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part 1. Making books: paper, publishers, printers -- English rag-women and early modern paper production / Heidi Craig -- Widow publishers in London, 1540-1640 / Alan B. Farmer -- Female stationers and their second-plus husbands / Sarah Neville -- Left to their own devices: sixteenth-century widows and their printers' devices / Erika Mary Boeckeler -- 'Famed as far as on finds books': women in the Dutch and English book trades / Martine van Elk -- Part 2. Making texts: authors and editors -- Isabella Witney amongst the stalls of Richard Jones / Kirk Melnikoff -- 'All by her directing': the Countess of Pembroke and her Arcadia / Sarah Wall-Randell -- Katharine Lee Bates and women's editions of Shakespeare for students / Molly G. Yarn -- Part 3. Marking books: owners, readers, collectors, annotators -- Patterns in women's book ownership, 1500-1700 / Georgianna Ziegler -- Reader, maker, mentor: the Countess of Huntingdon and her networks / Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich -- Frances Wolfreston's annotations as labours of love / Lori Humphrey Newcomb -- Afterword: widows, orphans and other errors / Helen Smith.
Subject Terms:
Women in the book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 16th century. | Women in the book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 17th century. | Books -- England -- History -- 16th century. | Books -- England -- History -- 17th century. | Books. | Women in the book industries and trade. | England.