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

ISBN-13: 9781350246638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str.

Valerie Wayne

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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