Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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0754652564

Women, reading, and the cultural politics of early modern England.

Snook, Edith.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2005

188 pages

$89.95

Hardcover

Women and gender in the early modern world

PR113

She was a countess three times over, and in a triptych depicting her life she appears in utero, as a very young woman, and as a matron, always surrounded by books, at least on...

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