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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wayne, Valerie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Publishers and publishing--England--History.

Publishers and publishing.

Booksellers and bookselling--England--History.

Booksellers and bookselling.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London : The Arden Shakespeare, 2020.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover page

Halftitle page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTE ON TEXTS

ABBREVIATIONS

1 Introduction: Locating women's labour Valerie Wayne

The labours of Jacqueline du Thuit Vautrollier Field

Making books

Making texts and marking books

Additional labours

Notes

References

PART I Making books: Paper, publishers, printers

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

The historical rag-picker in early modern England

Rag-women in early modern English discourse

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

Wealth and riches: Marriage and stationer widows

Two kinds of publishers: Conservative and entrepreneurial

Widow stationers in the 1630s

4 Female stationers and their second-plus husbands Sarah Neville

Alice Bailey Charlewood Roberts

Joan Sturgis Kingston Robinson Orwin

Assuming women's presence

5 Left to their own devices: Sixteenth-century widows and their printers' devices Erika Mary Boeckeler

Joan Merrye Jugge and her flock of pelicans

Alice Bailey Charlewood Roberts leans out of the border

Joan Sturgis Kingston Robinson Orwin cuts into the record

6 'Famed as far as one finds books': Women in the Dutch and English book trades Martine van Elk

Appendix of women stationers in seventeenth- century Amsterdam

PART II Making texts:Authors and editors

7 Isabella Whitney amongst the stalls of Richard Jones Kirk Melnikoff

Whitney's ware

Jones's 'store of Bookes'

Whitney's aspirations

References

8 'All by her directing': The Countess of Pembroke and her Arcadia Sarah Wall-Randell

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

PART III Marking books: Owners, readers, collectors, annotators

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

What were women reading?

Doodlers, inscribers, collectors

Women's signatures and what they tell us

Books as gifts

Women as annotators

Bringing owners alive

11 Reader, maker, mentor: The Countess of Huntingdon and her networks Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich

Hastings as an author and 'maker' of books

Hastings as a discerning, erudite reader

Hastings as a mentor: Influential, intimidating, playful

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

Recovering Wolfreston's annotations

Selective collecting, shared reading

Wolfreston's labours of annotation

Marking as literary appreciation

13 Afterword: Widows, orphans and other errors Helen Smith

Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781350110045

1350110043

9781350110021

1350110027

9781350110038

OCLC:

1151184147