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Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England, Paperback / softback Book

Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England Paperback / softback

Edited by Dr Valerie (University of Hawai‘i, USA) Wayne

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This collection reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books, from those who worked in the book trade to those who composed, selected, collected and annotated books.

Women gathered rags for paper production, invested in books and oversaw the presses that printed them.

Their writing and reading had an impact on their contemporaries and the developing literary canon.

A focus on women’s work enables these essays to recognize the various forms of labour -- textual and social as well as material and commercial -- that women of different social classes engaged in.

Those considered include the very poor, the middling sort who were active in the book trade, and the elite women authors and readers who participated in literary communities.

Taken together, these essays convey the impressive work that women accomplished and their frequent collaborations with others in the making, marking, and marketing of early modern English books.

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