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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. ‘She much delighted in that holy Book’: women’s religious reading habits
  10. 2. ‘Reading unprofitable romances’: gender, identity and the romance genre
  11. 3. ‘I harde yow once saye yow loved forryne newes’: women news readers
  12. 4. Women reading science and philosophy: medical, culinary and philosophical knowledge
  13. 5. (Re-)reading and record-keeping
  14. Conclusion
  15. Select bibliography
  16. Index

Contents

  1. List of figures
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. Cultural discourses of women’s reading
  5. Finding women readers
  6. Notes
  7. 1. ‘She much delighted in that holy Book’: women’s religious reading habits
  8. Her Bible: women’s religious books
  9. Theology, devotion and gender
  10. Conclusion
  11. Notes
  12. 2. ‘Reading unprofitable romances’: gender, identity and the romance genre
  13. Writing on romance books: women’s annotations and inscriptions
  14. Romances and femininity in women’s life-writing
  15. Conclusion
  16. Notes
  17. 3. ‘I harde yow once saye yow loved forryne newes’: women news readers
  18. Letters of news
  19. Manuscript newsletters
  20. Conclusion
  21. Notes
  22. 4. Women reading science and philosophy: medical, culinary and philosophical knowledge
  23. Her philosophy: ownership and annotation
  24. Knowledge, science and manuscript recipe books
  25. Conclusion
  26. Notes
  27. 5. (Re-)reading and record-keeping
  28. Re-reading and reading notes
  29. Marks of life
  30. Conclusion
  31. Notes
  32. Conclusion
  33. Notes
  34. Select bibliography
  35. Index

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