MRP: Love, sex, & family
Contents
Love sex & family bibliography
Art
O'Day, Rosemary, 'Family Galleries: Women and Art in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries' in Huntington Library Quarterly, Autumn 2008
Gender
Fraser, Antonia, The weaker vessel (London, 1984)
Shoemaker, Robert, Gender in English Society, 1650-1850: The Emergence of Separate Spheres? (1998)
Letter writing
Daybell, James, Women letter-writers in Tudor England (Oxford, 2006)
- Based on a study of 3,000 manuscript letters
- Daybell is good on the context, purpose, and degree of singularity or multiplicity of target readers of the letter writers he studies (see for example his discussion of the Countess of Shrewsbury's corpus of letters (Daybell, 2006:2)
- He challenges the strawman that C16th letters written by aristocratic, gentry and mercantile women were "domestic, parochial, and non-political" (Daybell, 2006:3)
Love
Rickman, Johanna, Love, lust, and license in early modern England: illicit sex and the nobility (Aldershot, 2008)
- See Ch. 4 'Love and letters: Mary Wroth and William Herbert', pp.141-172
Wright, Nancy E., Women, property, and the letters of the law in early modern England (Toronto, 2004)
Lettmaier, Saskia, Broken engagements (XXXX, XXXX)
Sex
Property & women
Brewer, John and Susan Staves (ed.), Early modern conceptions of property (London, 1995)
Staves, Susan, Married women's separate property in England, 1660-1833 (Harvard, 1990)
Law & women
- Stretton, Tim, Women waging law in Elizabethan England (Cambridge, 1998)
Women's agency
O'Day, Rosemary, Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies (XXXX, 2007)
