Here is a fascinating social history of women and their lives between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution. Anne Laurence covers marriage, sex, childbirth, work within and outside the home, education, religion and women's activity in the community and the wider world

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
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Explores the expectations and experiences of women in the crucial period between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.
Here is a fascinating social history of women and their lives between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution. Anne Laurence covers marriage, sex, childbirth, work within and outside the home, education, religion and women's activity in the community and the wider world
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Explores the expectations and experiences of women in the crucial period between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781842126226
Publisert
2002
Utgiver
Vendor
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Vekt
240 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, P, U, 01, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter

Biographical note

Anne Laurence studied history at the Universities of York and Oxford. She has worked at the Open University since 1976, where she is a Senior Lecturer in History. She has recently completed work on an Open University course on France and the British Isles in the seventeenth century, with a television series on the use of buildings for social history.