Maids Wives Widows

Author : Dr. Sara Read
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473823402

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Maids, Wives, Widows is a lively exploration of the everyday lives of women in early modern England, from 1540-1740. The book uncovers details of how women filled their days, what they liked to eat and drink, what jobs they held, and how they raised their children. With chapters devoted to beauty regimes, fashion, and literature, the book also examines the cultural as well as the domestic aspect of early modern women's lives. Further, the book answers questions such as how women understood and dealt with their monthly periods and what it was like to give birth in a time before modern obstetric care was available.?The book also highlights key moments in women's history such as the publication in 1671, of the first midwifery guide by an English woman, Jane Sharp. The turmoil caused by the Civil Wars of the 1640s gave rise to a number of religious sects in which women participated to a surprising extent and some of their stories are included in this book. Also scrutinised are cases of notorious criminals such as murderer Sarah Malcolm and confidence trickster Mary Toft who pretended to give birth to rabbits.??Overall the book describes the experiences of women over a two hundred year period noting the changes and continuities of daily life during this fascinating era.

Author : Sara Read
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1399023209

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Maids, Wives, Widows by Sara Read Pdf

Maids, Wives, Widows is a lively exploration of the everyday lives of women in early modern England, from 1540-1740. The book uncovers details of how women filled their days, what they liked to eat and drink, what jobs they held, and how they raised their children. With chapters devoted to beauty regimes, fashion, and literature, the book also examines the cultural as well as the domestic aspect of early modern women's lives. Further, the book answers questions such as how women understood and dealt with their monthly periods and what it was like to give birth in a time before modern obstetric care was available. The book also highlights key moments in women's history such as the publication in 1671, of the first midwifery guide by an English woman, Jane Sharp. The turmoil caused by the Civil Wars of the 1640s gave rise to a number of religious sects in which women participated to a surprising extent and some of their stories are included in this book. Also scrutinized are cases of notorious criminals such as murderer Sarah Malcolm and confidence trickster Mary Toft who pretended to give birth to rabbits. Overall the book describes the experiences of women over a two hundred year period noting the changes and continuities of daily life during this fascinating era.

Author : Rose Falls Bres
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 0428855466

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Maids, Wives and Widows by Rose Falls Bres Pdf

Excerpt from Maids, Wives and Widows: The Law of the Land and of the Various States as It Affects Women It is written in a manner to give the reader the funda mental principles oi the law governing the subject, divested of the technical phraseology which only lawyers understand, and furnishes a comprehensive grasp of all the law indespensable for women to know in her broader field of life. As such, this helpful and instruc tive volume should be in every woman's library. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Rose Falls Bres
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1343063353

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Maids, Wives and Widows by Rose Falls Bres Pdf

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Author : Sara Read
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473859586

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Maids, Wives, Widows by Sara Read Pdf

A broad-ranging exploration of the everyday lives of women—from social calls to medical needs—during one of English history’s most fascinating periods. Maids, wives, and widows were the official classifications of women according to English law in the early modern era, immediately following the medieval period. In this fascinating study of the time, historian Sara Read shows “how varied, rich, joyous, and sociable early modern women’s lives were, not to mention just how busy or difficult they could be” (Read, from the introduction). Read delves into how these women filled their days, including vivid details of what they liked to eat and drink, what jobs they held, and how they raised their children. With chapters devoted to beauty regimes, fashion, and literature, the book examines the cultural and domestic aspects of life, as well as how women understood and dealt with their monthly periods and what it was like to give birth in a time before modern obstetric care was available. Maids, Wives, Widows also highlights key moments in women’s history such as the 1671 publication of the first midwifery guide by Jane Sharp; the turmoil caused by the Civil Wars of the 1640s; the various new religious sects in which women participated to a surprising extent; and many others. Also scrutinized are cases of notorious criminals such as murderer Sarah Malcolm and confidence trickster Mary Toft who pretended to give birth to rabbits.

Author : Rose Falls Bres
Publisher : New York : E.P. Dutton
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Women
ISBN : NYPL:33433075968960

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Maids, Wives and Widows by Rose Falls Bres Pdf

Author : Rose Falls Bres
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1295524708

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Maids, Wives and Widows by Rose Falls Bres Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1832-11-03
Category : Fashion
ISBN : OXFORD:590645906

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The Maids, Wives, and Widows' Penny Magazine, and Gazette of Fashion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margaret Hallissy
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029947952

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Clean Maids, True Wives, Steadfast Widows by Margaret Hallissy Pdf

Chaucer was a keen observer of the lives of women with a remarkable ability to see beyond his culture's preconceptions concerning their proper roles. The lives of medieval women were divided into three estates--virginity, wifehood, and widowhood--each with complex rules extending to particulars of speech and dress, but all directed toward the single purpose of preserving female chastity, for which a woman was to be prepared to suffer or even die. Margaret Hallissy's lively and literate study traces Chaucer's female characterizations against a background of medieval rules and common assumptions governing women to determine where he adhered to or departed from the behavioral norms. She concludes that he discounted much of these codes of conduct as being detrimental to the development of a full human person. The Wife of Bath, Chaucer's most drastic deviation from the received wisdom about women of his day, could only have been developed by an author/narrator who turned from the prescribed written rules--which, sacred or secular, were all instruments of patriarchal power--to female discourse and action. Applying insights from the works of modern social historians of the Middle Ages and ranging widely in sources from the visual arts, civil and canon law, homiletics, theology, architecture, fashion history, and medicine, Hallissy illuminates the preconceptions with which Chaucer's original audience would have encountered his work and brings her findings to bear on a close analysis of literary characters in the text. The resulting study provides an original and essential dimension for reading Chaucer, while its feminist-historicist approach broadens the audience to those interested in medieval studies and women's studies in general.

Author : Mrs. Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108003752238

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Maid, Wife Or Widow? by Mrs. Alexander Pdf

Author : Rose Falls Bres
Publisher : New York : E.P. Dutton
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Women
ISBN : UVA:X002176473

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Maids, Wives and Widows by Rose Falls Bres Pdf

Author : Mrs. Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : English fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024147134

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Maid, Wife, Or Widow? by Mrs. Alexander Pdf

Author : Henry Siddons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026654554

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The Maid, Wife, and Widow by Henry Siddons Pdf

Author : Michelle Lamarche Marrese
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501728518

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A Woman's Kingdom by Michelle Lamarche Marrese Pdf

In A Woman's Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noblewomen's unusual property rights. In contrast to women in Western Europe, who could not control their assets during marriage until the second half of the nineteenth century, married women in Russia enjoyed the right to alienate and manage their fortunes beginning in 1753. Marrese traces the extension of noblewomen's right to property and places this story in the broader context of the evolution of private property in Russia before the Great Reforms of the 1860s. Historians have often dismissed women's property rights as meaningless. In the patriarchal society of Imperial Russia, a married woman could neither work nor travel without her husband's permission, and divorce was all but unattainable. Yet, through a detailed analysis of women's property rights from the Petrine era through the abolition of serfdom in 1861, Marrese demonstrates the significance of noblewomen's proprietary power. She concludes that Russian noblewomen were unique not only for the range of property rights available to them, but also for the active exercise of their legal prerogatives.A remarkably broad source base provides a solid foundation for Marrese's conclusions. These sources comprise more than eight thousand transactions from notarial records documenting a variety of property transfers, property disputes brought to the Senate, noble family papers, and a vast memoir literature. A Woman's Kingdom stands as a masterful challenge to the existing, androcentric view of noble society in Russia before Emancipation.

Author : Mrs. Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 189?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:7078657

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Maid, Wife, Or Widow? by Mrs. Alexander Pdf