Women's labour and the history of the book in early modern England , 2020
- Title(s):
- Women's labour and the history of the book in early modern England / edited by Valerie Wayne.
- Published/Created:
- London ; New York : The Arden Shakespeare, 2020.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 318 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryZ325 .W66 2020 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Note: Please contact the Reference Library to schedule an appointment [Email ycba.reference@yale.edu] - Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15544643
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Books -- England -- History -- 16th century.Books -- England -- History -- 17th century.Books.England.Women in the book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 16th century.Women in the book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 17th century.Women in the book industries and trade.
- Form/Genre:
- History.
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- Part 1. Making books: paper, publishers, printers
- English rag-women and early modern paper production / Heidi Craig
- Widow publishers in London, 1540-1640 / Alan B. Farmer
- Female stationers and their second-plus husbands / Sarah Neville
- Left to their own devices: sixteenth-century widows and their printers' devices / Erika Mary Boeckeler
- 'Famed as far as on finds books': women in the Dutch and English book trades / Martine van Elk
- Part 2. Making texts: authors and editors
- Isabella Witney amongst the stalls of Richard Jones / Kirk Melnikoff
- 'All by her directing': the Countess of Pembroke and her Arcadia / Sarah Wall-Randell
- Katharine Lee Bates and women's editions of Shakespeare for students / Molly G. Yarn
- Part 3. Marking books: owners, readers, collectors, annotators
- Patterns in women's book ownership, 1500-1700 / Georgianna Ziegler
- Reader, maker, mentor: the Countess of Huntingdon and her networks / Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
- Frances Wolfreston's annotations as labours of love / Lori Humphrey Newcomb
- Afterword: widows, orphans and other errors / Helen Smith.