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table of contents
Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Cultural discourses of women’s reading
- Finding women readers
- Notes
- 1. ‘She much delighted in that holy Book’: women’s religious reading habits
- Her Bible: women’s religious books
- Theology, devotion and gender
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 2. ‘Reading unprofitable romances’: gender, identity and the romance genre
- Writing on romance books: women’s annotations and inscriptions
- Romances and femininity in women’s life-writing
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3. ‘I harde yow once saye yow loved forryne newes’: women news readers
- Letters of news
- Manuscript newsletters
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4. Women reading science and philosophy: medical, culinary and philosophical knowledge
- Her philosophy: ownership and annotation
- Knowledge, science and manuscript recipe books
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5. (Re-)reading and record-keeping
- Re-reading and reading notes
- Marks of life
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index