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Women in England 1500-1760 charts the expectations and experiences from birth to death of women in England in the period between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution, using the most recent statistical studies as well as the evidence of individual biographies and other writings.
Bringing together the astonishing range of research over the last twenty years, this book looks at areas such as life-expectancy, likelihood and duration of marriage, choice of partners, numbers of children and experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, work inside and outside the household, education, religion, and participation in the community and the wider world. These are all subjects on which people make broad generalizations which often bear little resemblance to the most recent research.
Early modern England was not a golden age for women, and women's opportunities for an independent existence outside the family probably diminished between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. But nevertheless there were many areas of life in which women, despite official prohibition, were able to exercise power and individual choice in matters both material and spiritual.
As members of nuclear families, marrying usually in their mid-twenties, women lived in a recognisably modern society rather than a traditional society of extended families and child brides. Anne Laurence examines the material world of women - their possessions and what they created and commissioned - as well as their mental worlds: their beliefs, their writing and the popular culture in which they participated.
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History, Social conditions, Women, Social life and customs, Moeurs et coutumes, Vrouwen, Frau, Sociale situatie, Femmes, Histoire sociale, Femme, 18e siècle, Coutume sociale, Modern period, 17e siècle, Vie sociale, 16e siècle, Condition sociale, Women, great britain, Women, history, modern period, 1600-Places
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Women in England 1500-1760
2013, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Women in England 1500-1760: a Social History
2004, Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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0297821741 9780297821748
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Women in England, 1500-1760: asocial history
1995, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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0297816055 9780297816058
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Women in England, 1500-1760: a social history
1994, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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029781463X 9780297814634
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Women in England, 1500-1760: asocial history
1994, St. Martin's Press
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0312122071 9780312122072
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Women in England, 1500-1760: a social history
1994, St. Martin's Press
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Women in England, 1500-1760: A Social History
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1842126229 9781842126226
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