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Primary sources What sets this book apart is the inclusion of documents, revealing the language and mindset of the period, and allowing us to glimpse the small details of everyday life.
Many excerpts from speech and letters of the day great flavor of just how women navigated their lives in this era.
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 wonderfully diverse group of women and a series of voices that have rarely been heard in history, from a poor Devon servantgirl to Queen Anne herself.
Drawing on unpublished, archival materials, the book explores women's:

experiences of work, sex, marriage and motherhood
beliefs and spirituality
political activities
relationships
mental worlds

In a time when few women could write, this book reveals the multitude of ways in which their voices have left traces

in the written record, and deepens our understanding of women's lives in the past.
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