Women's Education, Work, & Writing

This webpage is intended to help students researching women's education and work in Early Modern England. If you have any questions or recommendations for additions to the webpage, please contact Leigh Anne Palmer, Librarian for English Literature.

Books

Education

Bushnell, Rebecca W. A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Eisenhower Stacks LC 1011 .B837 1996

Charlton, Kenneth. Education in Renaissance England. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.
Eisenhower Stacks LA631.4 .C5 1965

Cressy, David. Education in Tudor and Stuart England. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976.
Eisenhower Stacks LA631.5 .C731 1976

Cressy, David. Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Eisenhower Stacks LC156.G7 C73 1980

Orme, Nicholas. Education and Society in Medieval and Renaissance England. London: The Hambledon Press, 1989.
Eisenhower Stacks LA631.3 .O737 1988

Watson, Foster. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908.
Eisenhower Stacks LA631.4 .W33 1968

Housewifery

Blake, John B. "The Compleat Housewife." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 49 (1975): 30-42.
Eisenhower Stacks R 15.B93

Cahn, Susan. Industry of Devotion: The Transformation of Women's Work in England, 1500-1660. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
Eisenhower Stacks HQ1599.E5 C341 1987

Charles, Lindsey, and Lorna Duffin. Women and Work in Pre-Industrial England. London: Croom Helm, 1985.
Eisenhower Stacks HD6136 .W661 1985

Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. Witches Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers. Old Westbury, New York: Feminist Press, 1973. Eisenhower Stacks R692 .E35 1973

Furnivall, Frederick J, ed. The Babees Book. London: Early English Text Society, 1868.
Eisenhower D-Level Blue Labels PR1119.A2 no.32

Fussell, G.E, and K.R. The English Countrywoman. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1971.
Libraries Services Center HT421 .F85 1953

Markham, Gervase. The English Housewife. Ed Michael R Best. Toront McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987.
Eisenhower Stacks TX144 .M31 1986

Mertes, Kate. The English Noble Household, 1250-1600: Good Governance and Politic Rule. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1988.
Eisenhower Stacks DA185 .M471 1988

Orlin, Lena Cowen. Elizabethan Households: An Anthology. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1995.
Eisenhower Stacks DA 356 .O721 1995 QUARTO

Shephard, Amanda. Gender and Authority in Sixteenth-Century England: The Knox Debate. Keele, Staffordshire: Ryburn Pub., 1994.
Eisenhower Stacks HQ 1121 .S533 1994

Sizemore, Christine W. "Early Seventeenth-Century Advice Books: The Female Viewpoint." South Atlantic Bulletin 41 (1976): 41-8.
Available electronically through JStor

Women Writers

Beilin, Elaine V. Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance, 1987.
Eisenhower Reserves PO113 .B45 1987

Benson, Pamela. The Invention of the Renaissance Woman: The Challenge of Female Independence in the Literature and Thought of Italy and England.
University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
Eisenhower Stacks PO 418 .W65 B46 1992

Ferguson, Margaret W, Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy J. Vickers, eds. Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe. Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Eisenhower Reserves HQ1075.5.E85 R481 1986

Krontiris, Tina. Oppositional Voices: Women as Writers and Translators of Literature in the English Renaissance. London ; New York: Routledge, 1992.
Eisenhower Stacks PO 113 .K7 1992

Martin, Randall. Women Writers in Renaissance England. New York: Longman, 1997.
Eisenhower Reserves PR 1110 .W6 W66 1997

Shepherd, Simon, ed. The Women's Sharp Revenge: Five Women's Pamphlets from the Renaissance. London: Fourth Estate, 1985.
Eisenhower Stacks PO1286.W6 W65 1985

Travitsky, Betty, ed. The Paradise of Women: Writings by Englishwomen of the Renaissance. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Eisenhower Stacks PO1110.W6 P3 1981

Walker, Kim. Women Writers of the English Renaissance. New York: Twaine, 1996. 
Eisenhower D-Level Blue Labels PR 113 .W35 1996

Forbes, Thomas R. The Midwife and the Witch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.
Eisenhower Stacks RG950 .F6 1966

Hogrefe, Pearl. Tudor Women: Commoners and Queens. Ames, Iowa: Iowa University Press, 1975.
Eisenhower Stacks HQ1596 .H63 1975

Hogrefe, Pearl. Women of Action in Tudor England. Ames, Iowa: Iowa University Press, 1975.
Eisenhower Stacks HQ1595.A3 H63 1977

Powell, Chilton Latham. English Domestic Relations, 1487-1653. New York: Columbia University Press, 1917.
Eisenhower Stacks HQ613 .P8

Rose, Mary Beth, ed. Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
Eisenhower Stacks HQ 1148 .W661 1986

Tilly, Louise A, and Joan W Scott. Women, Work, and Family. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.
Eisenhower Stacks HD6135 .T541 1978

Walker, Sue Sheridan. Wife and Widow in Medieval England. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
Eisenhower Government Publications-Law KD 758 .W541 1993

Ale, beer, and brewers in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World. Oxford, 1996.
Eisenhower Reserves HD 6073 .L62 G723 1996

Clark, Alice. Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century. London, 1919.
Eisenhower Stacks PO26 .C59

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Women as Translators

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