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Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England Dr Valerie Wayne (University of Hawai'i, USA)

Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England By Dr Valerie Wayne (University of Hawai'i, USA)

Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England by Dr Valerie Wayne (University of Hawai'i, USA)

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Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England by Dr Valerie Wayne (University of Hawai'i, USA)

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.

Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England Reviews

The essays in this collection add substantially to what is known about early modern women's work in book production and the culture of print. The volume has a nice balance of essays that sweep broadly through the archives and that focus on individual women printers, publishers, writers, booksellers, collectors, and readers. The scholarship is superb, including Valerie Wayne's outstanding introduction, and the intersection of the essays is unusually rich * Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal *
An arresting and important volume that rethinks the role of women in book history. * Times Literary Supplement *
Valerie Wayne's editorship skilfully marshals a range of essays, drawing out key themes and setting out an intellectual stall ... this book advances the work of placing women into the history of books with research that is explicitly feminist, uses modern technologies and covers new ground as well as reassessing the old ... [A] landmark volume. * Publishing History *
The scholars here have performed impressive acts of archival investigation, much dust has been kicked up, but it has the benefit of clearing the air and making it possible to see the truly impressive busyness of business women, urban scavengers, and noble ladies of leisure alike. * Maureen Quilligan, Duke University, USA *

About Dr Valerie Wayne (University of Hawai'i, USA)

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

Table of Contents

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

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NGR9781350246638
9781350246638
1350246638
Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England by Dr Valerie Wayne (University of Hawai'i, USA)
Dr Valerie Wayne (University of Hawai'i, USA)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2022-01-13
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