Women In England 1500-1760

Drawing on a wide range of recent research, WOMEN IN ENGLAND is an intimate social history of women who experienced life between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.Anne Laurence writes about marriage, sex, childbirth, work within and outside the household, education, religion and women’s activity in the community and the wider world.’A marvellously rich and fresh survey of English women from the Reformation to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution’ Roy Porter, The Sunday Times]]>