Reading, Ownership, Circulation
by
Leah Knight, Micheline White, Elizabeth Sauer
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Women in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historically distinctive ways. Yet, unlike that of their male counterparts, the study of women’s reading practices and book ownership has been an elusive...