Women's Worlds in England presents a unique collection of source materials on women's lives in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. The book introduces a

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters

It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies id

The first comprehensive anthology of seventeenth-century English women writers