'The essays in this volume are both scholarly and extremely stimulating.' - Books and Bookmen'The volume is certainly a 'must' for women's historians

• List of plates, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, Preface, Foreword, 1 Marital fertility and lactation 1570–1720, 2 The remarrying widow: a stereotype reconsidered, 3 Women and the urban economy: Oxford 1500–1800, 4 Reviled and crucified marriages: the position of Tudor bishops’ wives, 5 Recusant women 1560–1640, 6 Stuart women’s diaries and occasional memoirs, 7 Women’s published writings 1600–1700, Index

'The essays in this volume are both scholarly and extremely stimulating.' - Books and Bookmen'The volume is certainly a 'must' for women's historians

• List of plates, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, Preface, Foreword, 1 Marital fertility and lactation 1570–1720, 2 The remarrying widow: a stereotype reconsidered, 3 Women and the urban economy: Oxford 1500–1800, 4 Reviled and crucified marriages: the position of Tudor bishops’ wives, 5 Recusant women 1560–1640, 6 Stuart women’s diaries and occasional memoirs, 7 Women’s published writings 1600–1700, Index