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Zusatztext This monograph will be indispensable for early modern book historians as well as scholars of women's writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Informationen zum Autor Helen Smith is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of York. She has published widely on the history of books and reading, and is co-editor (with Louise Wilson) of Renaissance Paratexts (Cambridge, 2011). She is Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, 'Conversion Narratives in Early Modern Europe'. Klappentext Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance. It recovering the ways in which women participated as co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers, booksellers, and readers. Zusammenfassung Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance. It recovering the ways in which women participated as co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers, booksellers, and readers. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of abbreviations List of illustrations Acknowledgments Note to the reader Introduction: 'Grossly Material Things' 1: 'Pen'd with double art': Women at the Scene of Writing 2: 'A dame, an owner, a defendresse': Women, Patronage, and Print 3: 'A free Stationers wife of this companye': Women and the Stationers 4: 'Certaine women brokers and peddlers': Beyond the London Book Trades 5: 'No deformitie can abide before the sunne': Imagining Early Modern Women's Reading Bibliography of Works Cited Index
