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

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Online resources

  • Annotated Books Online: A Digital Archive of Early Modern Books. Accessed June 23, 2023. www.annotatedbooksonline.com.
  • ‘Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library’. Calisphere: University of California. Accessed June 23, 2023. https://calisphere.org/collections/26771.
  • Early Modern Female Book Ownership: #HerBook. Accessed June 23, 2023. https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com.
  • Early Modern Women’s Marginalia. Accessed August 12, 2024. https://earlymodernwomensmarginalia.cems.anu.edu.au.
  • Isham, Elizabeth. Book of Rememberance. Accessed August 30, 2023. http://web.warwick.ac.uk/english/perdita/Isham/bor_p26r.htm.

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT

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25 letters of news relative to the abdication of K. James 2 to Lady Clopton, from Mr. Hamon, 1688–1689.

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Osborn b435

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Gofton, Mary. Account book of Mary Gofton (née Hanbury, afterwards Lady Sandys, afterwards Richardson). 1645–1649.

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British Library

Add MS 29596

Correspondence and papers of the Hatton and Finch families, 1514–1779.

Add MS 46942

Egmont Papers Vol. XXIII. Correspondence etc.

Add MS 78309

Evelyn Papers Vol. CXLII. Correspondence and papers.

Add MS 78436

Evelyn Papers Vol. CCLXIX. Correspondence and papers.

Add MS 78440

Evelyn Papers Vol. CCLXXIII. Correspondence and papers. [1675]–1685.

Egerton MS 2983

Heath and Verney Papers Vol. VI. Miscellaneous inventories and accompts 1599–1799.

Add Ch 44538

Pawley, Francis. Inventory of her goods. 1681.

Cambridge University Library

MS Add 8460

Lyttelton, Elizabeth. Commonplace Book. C.1680.

Cumbria Record Office, Kendal

WD/HOTH/1/10

Clifford, Lady Anne. Great Books of Record.

Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock

D258/38/1

Inventory of Elizabeth Gell’s goods. 1705.

D5557.2

Correspondence: German Pole (1626–1683).

D5557.3

Correspondence: Samuel Pole (d.1731).

Folger Shakespeare Library

V.a.619

Baker, Margaret. Receipt Book of Margaret Baker. c.1675.

X.d.493

Helsby, Mary Hatton. Autograph letters signed from Mary Hatton Helsby to various recipients [manuscript], 1651–1668.

V.b.366

Winch, Rebecca. Receipt Book of Rebeckah Winche, ca. 1666.

Henry E. Huntington Library

mssHM 15369

Hastings, Elizabeth, Countess of Huntingdon. Certaine Collections of the right Hon. Elizabeth late Countess of Huntingdon for her own private use, 1633.

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Hertford

D/EP F35

Cowper, Sarah. Diary, Volume 7, 1713–1716.

D/EP F37

Cowper, Sarah. Commonplace Book.

D/EP F38

Cowper, Sarah. Miscellany.

D/EP F39

Cowper, Sarah. Biblical Commentary.

D/EP F43

Cowper, Sarah. Miscellany.

D/EP F44

Cowper, Sarah. Miscellany.

Trinity College, Cambridge

R.5.5

Sadleir, Anne. Collection of Letters, Drafts, and Other Papers.

R.16.2

The Trinity Apocalypse.

Wellcome Library

MS.1176

Bisaker, Hannah. 1692.

MS.184a

Catchmay, Lady Frances. 1625.

MS.2954

Hudson, Sarah, 1678.

MS 751/54–55.

Sleigh, Elizabeth, and Felicia Whitfeld. ‘An Inventory of the Lady Sleighs bookes May 12 1647’.

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Huddersfield

DD/RA/F/1

Lowther, Elizabeth. Commonplace Book.

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Misc Mss

Grant, Arthur. Autograph Letters signed to Elizabeth Tollemache. 1615–1619.

MS.2009.015

Horsington, Sarah. Arcana, or, Mysteries in ye theory of physiology and chymistry: being authentick rules, for preparing spagyricall medicaments, for my own observation and satisfaction. Also are manyfold private receipts, and remedies, prescriptions of T: H: M: D: Collected by ye Industry of the transcriber, of this manuscript, uxoris ejus S: H:, 1666.

MS.1952.003

Manuscript commonplace book of Anne and Roger Ley. c.1623–c.1667.

MS.1951.021

Pole Newsletter Collection.

Newspapers

The Flying Post, or the Post-Master

The London Gazette

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