When Gossips Meet: Women, Family, and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780199255986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 408 str.

Bernard Capp

Opis

This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England sought to make the best of their lives in a society that excluded or marginalized them in almost every sphere. It argues that networks of close friends ('gossips') provided invaluable moral and practical support, helping them to shape their own lives and to play an active role in the affairs of the local community.

Recenzje

[Capp] draws on the records of the church courts, supplemented by a wide variety of other sources, to make up a penetrating, sensitive and brilliantly vivid picture of the prejudices and problems with which contemporary women were faced and the strategies they developed in coping with them.