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Book Synopsis Maids, Wives, Widows by : Dr. Sara Read
Download or read book Maids, Wives, Widows written by Dr. Sara Read and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maids, Wives, Widows is a lively exploration of the everyday lives of women in early modern England, from 1540-1740. The book uncovers details of how women filled their days, what they liked to eat and drink, what jobs they held, and how they raised their children. With chapters devoted to beauty regimes, fashion, and literature, the book also examines the cultural as well as the domestic aspect of early modern women's lives. Further, the book answers questions such as how women understood and dealt with their monthly periods and what it was like to give birth in a time before modern obstetric care was available.?The book also highlights key moments in women's history such as the publication in 1671, of the first midwifery guide by an English woman, Jane Sharp. The turmoil caused by the Civil Wars of the 1640s gave rise to a number of religious sects in which women participated to a surprising extent and some of their stories are included in this book. Also scrutinised are cases of notorious criminals such as murderer Sarah Malcolm and confidence trickster Mary Toft who pretended to give birth to rabbits.??Overall the book describes the experiences of women over a two hundred year period noting the changes and continuities of daily life during this fascinating era.
Book Synopsis Maids, Wives and Widows by : Rose Falls Bres
Download or read book Maids, Wives and Widows written by Rose Falls Bres and published by New York : E.P. Dutton. This book was released on 1918 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Maids, Wives and Widows by : Rose Falls Bres
Download or read book Maids, Wives and Widows written by Rose Falls Bres and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Maids, Wives and Widows: The Law of the Land and of the Various States as It Affects Women It is written in a manner to give the reader the funda mental principles oi the law governing the subject, divested of the technical phraseology which only lawyers understand, and furnishes a comprehensive grasp of all the law indespensable for women to know in her broader field of life. As such, this helpful and instruc tive volume should be in every woman's library. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Maids, Wives and Widows by : Rose Falls Bres
Download or read book Maids, Wives and Widows written by Rose Falls Bres and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Maids, Wives and Widows by : Rose Falls Bres
Download or read book Maids, Wives and Widows written by Rose Falls Bres and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Maids, Wives and Widows by : Rose Falls Bres
Download or read book Maids, Wives and Widows written by Rose Falls Bres and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book Maids, Wives, Widows written by Sara Read and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad-ranging exploration of the everyday lives of women—from social calls to medical needs—during one of English history’s most fascinating periods. Maids, wives, and widows were the official classifications of women according to English law in the early modern era, immediately following the medieval period. In this fascinating study of the time, historian Sara Read shows “how varied, rich, joyous, and sociable early modern women’s lives were, not to mention just how busy or difficult they could be” (Read, from the introduction). Read delves into how these women filled their days, including vivid details of what they liked to eat and drink, what jobs they held, and how they raised their children. With chapters devoted to beauty regimes, fashion, and literature, the book examines the cultural and domestic aspects of life, as well as how women understood and dealt with their monthly periods and what it was like to give birth in a time before modern obstetric care was available. Maids, Wives, Widows also highlights key moments in women’s history such as the 1671 publication of the first midwifery guide by Jane Sharp; the turmoil caused by the Civil Wars of the 1640s; the various new religious sects in which women participated to a surprising extent; and many others. Also scrutinized are cases of notorious criminals such as murderer Sarah Malcolm and confidence trickster Mary Toft who pretended to give birth to rabbits.
Book Synopsis Maids, Wives and Widows by : Rose Falls Bres
Download or read book Maids, Wives and Widows written by Rose Falls Bres and published by New York : E.P. Dutton. This book was released on 1918 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Maids, Wives, and Widows' Penny Magazine, and Gazette of Fashion by :
Download or read book The Maids, Wives, and Widows' Penny Magazine, and Gazette of Fashion written by and published by . This book was released on 1832-11-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Clean Maids, True Wives, Steadfast Widows by : Margaret Hallissy
Download or read book Clean Maids, True Wives, Steadfast Widows written by Margaret Hallissy and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer was a keen observer of the lives of women with a remarkable ability to see beyond his culture's preconceptions concerning their proper roles. The lives of medieval women were divided into three estates--virginity, wifehood, and widowhood--each with complex rules extending to particulars of speech and dress, but all directed toward the single purpose of preserving female chastity, for which a woman was to be prepared to suffer or even die. Margaret Hallissy's lively and literate study traces Chaucer's female characterizations against a background of medieval rules and common assumptions governing women to determine where he adhered to or departed from the behavioral norms. She concludes that he discounted much of these codes of conduct as being detrimental to the development of a full human person. The Wife of Bath, Chaucer's most drastic deviation from the received wisdom about women of his day, could only have been developed by an author/narrator who turned from the prescribed written rules--which, sacred or secular, were all instruments of patriarchal power--to female discourse and action. Applying insights from the works of modern social historians of the Middle Ages and ranging widely in sources from the visual arts, civil and canon law, homiletics, theology, architecture, fashion history, and medicine, Hallissy illuminates the preconceptions with which Chaucer's original audience would have encountered his work and brings her findings to bear on a close analysis of literary characters in the text. The resulting study provides an original and essential dimension for reading Chaucer, while its feminist-historicist approach broadens the audience to those interested in medieval studies and women's studies in general.
Book Synopsis Maid, Wife Or Widow? by : Mrs. Alexander
Download or read book Maid, Wife Or Widow? written by Mrs. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Maid, Wife, Or Widow? by : Mrs. Alexander
Download or read book Maid, Wife, Or Widow? written by Mrs. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Woman's Kingdom by : Michelle Lamarche Marrese
Download or read book A Woman's Kingdom written by Michelle Lamarche Marrese and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Woman's Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noblewomen's unusual property rights. In contrast to women in Western Europe, who could not control their assets during marriage until the second half of the nineteenth century, married women in Russia enjoyed the right to alienate and manage their fortunes beginning in 1753. Marrese traces the extension of noblewomen's right to property and places this story in the broader context of the evolution of private property in Russia before the Great Reforms of the 1860s. Historians have often dismissed women's property rights as meaningless. In the patriarchal society of Imperial Russia, a married woman could neither work nor travel without her husband's permission, and divorce was all but unattainable. Yet, through a detailed analysis of women's property rights from the Petrine era through the abolition of serfdom in 1861, Marrese demonstrates the significance of noblewomen's proprietary power. She concludes that Russian noblewomen were unique not only for the range of property rights available to them, but also for the active exercise of their legal prerogatives.A remarkably broad source base provides a solid foundation for Marrese's conclusions. These sources comprise more than eight thousand transactions from notarial records documenting a variety of property transfers, property disputes brought to the Senate, noble family papers, and a vast memoir literature. A Woman's Kingdom stands as a masterful challenge to the existing, androcentric view of noble society in Russia before Emancipation.
Book Synopsis The Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Tale by : Henry SIDDONS
Download or read book The Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Tale written by Henry SIDDONS and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Maid, Wife, Or Widow? by : Alexander
Download or read book Maid, Wife, Or Widow? written by Alexander and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Maid, Wife, Or Widow? by : Mrs. Alexander
Download or read book Maid, Wife, Or Widow? written by Mrs. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 189? with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Never Married written by Amy M. Froide and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England investigates a paradox in the history of early modern England: although one third of adult women were never married, these women have remained largely absent from historical scholarship. Amy Froide reintroduces us to the category of difference called marital status and to the significant ways it shaped the life experiences of early modern women. By de-centring marriage as the norm in social, economic, and cultural terms,her book critically refines our current understanding of people's lives in the past and adds to a recent line of scholarship that questions just how common 'traditional' families really were.This book is both a social-economic study of singlewomen and a cultural study of the meanings of singleness in early modern England. It focuses on never-married women in England's provincial towns, and on singlewomen from a broad social spectrum. Covering the entire early modern era, it reveals that this was a time of transition in the history of never-married women. During the sixteenth century life-long singlewomen were largely absent from popular culture, but by the eighteenth century theyhad become a central concern of English society.As the first book of original research to focus on singlewomen on the period, it also illuminates other areas of early modern history. Froide reveals the importance of kinship in the past to women without husbands and children, as well as to widows, widowers, single men, and orphans. Examining the contributions of working and propertied singlewomen, she is able to illustrate the importance of gender and marital status to urban economies and to notions of urban citizenship in the early modernera. Tracing the origins of the spinster and old maid stereotypes she reveals how singlewomen were marginalized as first the victims and then the villains of Protestant English society.
