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Maids Wives Widows
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Author : Dr. Sara Read
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2015-05-30
Maids Wives Widows written by Dr. Sara Read and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-30 with Social Science categories.
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.
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Author : Sara Read
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2023-12-30
Maids Wives Widows written by Sara Read and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-30 with categories.
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 scrutinized 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.
Maids Wives And Widows
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Author : Rose Falls Bres
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-01-12
Maids Wives And Widows written by Rose Falls Bres and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-12 with Law categories.
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.
Maids Wives And Widows
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Author : Rose Falls Bres
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-09-18
Maids Wives And Widows written by Rose Falls Bres and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-18 with categories.
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Maids Wives Widows
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Author : Sara Read
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2015-05-30
Maids Wives Widows written by Sara Read and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-30 with History categories.
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.
Maids Wives And Widows
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Author : Rose Falls Bres
language : en
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton
Release Date : 1918
Maids Wives And Widows written by Rose Falls Bres and has been published by New York : E.P. Dutton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1918 with Women categories.
Maids Wives And Widows
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Author : Rose Falls Bres
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2014-01
Maids Wives And Widows written by Rose Falls Bres and has been published by Nabu Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01 with categories.
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The Maids Wives And Widows Penny Magazine And Gazette Of Fashion
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1832-11-03
The Maids Wives And Widows Penny Magazine And Gazette Of Fashion written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1832-11-03 with Fashion categories.
Clean Maids True Wives Steadfast Widows
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Author : Margaret Hallissy
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1993-02-28
Clean Maids True Wives Steadfast Widows written by Margaret Hallissy and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-02-28 with History categories.
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.
Maid Wife Or Widow
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Author : Mrs. Alexander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Maid Wife Or Widow written by Mrs. Alexander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with categories.