Women's Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England
Details:
- Author(s) Wayne, Valerie (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2020
- Pages 336pp
- Publisher Bloomsbury
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
- Name Women in business
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Collected scholarly essays on women at work in connection with printing, other production, publishing, writing, reading, etc, early modern English books. Notably includes women working as rag collectors for paper production, widowed female publishers, etc. In three parts: 1] 'Making books - paper, publishers, printers'; 2] 'Making texts - authors and editors'; 'Marking books - owners, readers, collectors, annotators'. For relevant chapters see individual BHE entries