Women's labour and the history of the book in early modern England / edited by Valerie Wayne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wayne, Valerie, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the book industries and trade--England--History--16th century.

Women in the book industries and trade.

Women in the book industries and trade--England--History--17th century.

Women--Books and reading--England--History--16th century.

Women.

Women--Books and reading--England--History--17th century.

Books--England--History--16th century.

Books.

Books--England--History--17th century.

Book industries and trade--England--History--16th century.

Book industries and trade.

Book industries and trade--England--History--17th century.

Women--Books and reading.

England.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xiv, 318 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Other Title:

Women's labor and the history of the book in early modern England

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : BLOOMSBURY ARDEN, 2021.

London : The Arden Shakespeare, 2022.

Summary:

This collection brings to light many of the women whose labours were important to the creation and consumption of early modern English books, from those who gathered linen rags on the streets of London for paper production, to those who ran printing houses and financed the production of books, sold them, wrote them, edited them, owned and read them. The evidence of extant books reveals that women who worked beside their husbands in printing houses and bookshops sometimes exerted considerable influence over their shops' business decisions. Most of the identifiable women stationers were widows, who often sought to minimize their financial risk through a conservative approach to publishing. But some were more entrepreneurial, expanding the network of those with whom they worked and increasing the number and types of books they issued. In their roles as authors, editors, and annotators, women further extended their impact on the history of early modern books. By considering women from widely differing backgrounds who engaged in manual, commercial, familial and literary forms of labour, this collection recovers women's participation in book history as never before.

Contents:

Introduction: Locating women's labour / Valerie Wayne

English rag-women and early modern paper production / Heidi Craig

Widow publishers in London, 1540-1640 / Alan B. Farmer

Female stationers and their second-plus husbands / Sarah Neville

Left to their own devices: sixteenth-century widows and their printers' devices / Erika Mary Boeckeler

"Famed as far as one finds their books" : women in the Dutch and English book trades / Martine van Elk

Isabella Whitney amongst the stalls of Richard Jones / Kirk Melnikoff

"All by her directing" : the Countess of Pembroke and her Arcadia / Sarah Wall-Randell

Katharine Lee Bates and women's editions of Shakespeare for students / Molly G. Yarn

Patterns in women's book ownership, 1500-1700 / Georgianna Ziegler

Reader, maker, mentor: the Countess of Huntingdon and her networks / Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich

Frances Wolfreston's annotations as labours of love / Lori Humphrey Newcomb

Afterword: Widows, orphans and other errors / Helen Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781350246638

1350246638

OCLC:

1338037231

Publisher Number:

99995007474