392 Pages
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Routledge
386 Pages
by
Routledge
386 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1957, The English Woman in History displays the place women have held and the influence they have exerted within the changing pattern of English society. Ever since the days of Queen Elizabeth I the position of women in English society has been a matter of general debate. In the seventeenth century many men produced books in praise of women, following the example of Thomas... Read more
Preface 1. The Anglo-Saxon Woman 2. Feudal Law and the Feudal Lady, 1066-1660 3. The Country – woman 1066-1600 4. The Country-woman after 1600 5. The Renaissance and Reformation and their Consequences, 1400-1642 6. Women in the English Revolution 7. The Beginnings of English Feminism 8. Women and the New Scholarship 9. The Eighteenth Century – Court and Society 10. The Eighteenth Century- The New Middle Class 11. Reaction and the Rise of Modern Feminism Epilogue Index
Biography
Doris Mary Stenton
