Streets Full of Suitors
Jonah Miller: Early Modern Women, 21 August 2014
City Women: Money, Sex and the Social Order in Early Modern London
by Eleanor Hubbard.
Oxford, 297 pp., £24.99, September 2014,978 0 19 872204 5 Show More
by Eleanor Hubbard.
Oxford, 297 pp., £24.99, September 2014,
Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London
by Tim Reinke-Williams.
Palgrave, 225 pp., £60, April 2014,978 1 137 37209 3 Show More
by Tim Reinke-Williams.
Palgrave, 225 pp., £60, April 2014,
“... some credit where we dwell’ and ‘We are London Gentle-women borne.’ Both Eleanor Hubbard and Tim Reinke-Williams emphasise that ‘sexual behaviour was not the only activity which determined female identity and reputation.’ They use court records to examine the lives of 17th-century London women who married and raised children but also worked and ... ”
