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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

Index

A

  • active reading, 7–8, 30, 60–62, 77, 135, 150, 160, 176, 190
  • Allestree, Richard, 6, 62–4, 71, 73, 93
  • almanacs, 173–4, 183n67
  • archives, 8–10, 15n40
  • Astell, Mary, 94, 130–32, 134–41, 150, 162–6, 169, 187
  • Aston, Herbert, 43–4
  • Avery, Ann, 134

B

  • Bacon, Francis, 32, 133, 138–9
  • Bacon, Jane Cornwallis, 96–100
  • Baker, Margaret, 144
  • ballads, 64
  • Bantoft, Elizabeth, 134
  • Barclay, John, 65–7
  • Barrington, Joan, 42, 96–9, 101–2, 109, 117, 187
  • Baxter, Margaret, 6–7
  • Baxter, Richard, 6–7, 71, 73
  • Beckwith, Susanna, 26–33, 160, 171
  • Behn, Aphra, 94
  • Bible, The, 20, 23–5, 34–5, 37–40, 42, 52n41–7, 73, 170–71, 182n55
  • ownership, 26–33
  • Geneva, 27–33, 53n50
  • Bisaker, Hannah, 142
  • book lists, 11–12, 19, 26, 51n32, 65, 132–3
  • Book of Common Prayer, 26, 43
  • Bosc, Jacques du, 5, 152n12
  • Boscawen, Jael, 104
  • Boyle, Robert, 5–6, 139, 146–50
  • Boyle, Roger, 82
  • Brathwaite, Richard, 63
  • Breton, Nicholas, 63
  • British Civil Wars, 43–4, 67, 94, 97, 101, 108, 164, 168–9
  • Browne, Mary, 166–7
  • Browne, Thomas, 166–7

C

  • Carpenter, Elizabeth, 68
  • Carpenter, Margaret, 68
  • Catchmay, Frances, 143
  • Catholicism, 35–7, 43, 103, 189
  • Catholic texts, 26, 41
  • Cavendish, Margaret, 79, 129–30, 132, 151n3
  • Charles I, 32, 45, 100, 115
  • Charles II, 103
  • Cholmondeley, Elizabeth, 175–6
  • Clifford, Anne, 3–4, 25, 40–42, 60, 65–9, 84, 87–8n45, 132, 160, 165–6, 169–70, 188–9
  • Clopton, Barbara, 96–7, 106, 117
  • coffee houses, 95, 111–12, 120n16, 126n103
  • commonplace books, 9, 36, 59, 62, 85n2, 145–50, 157n84, 159–61, 166–71, 175–9
  • definitions of, 151n6, 179n3, 179n4
  • communal reading, 23, 40, 50n17, 66, 87–8n45, 165–7
  • Compton, Penelope, 172
  • conduct literature, 4–7, 20–22, 25, 37, 60–65, 131–2
  • conversion, 6–7, 14–15n28, 37, 71–3
  • Conway, Anne, 129, 132
  • Corbyn, Margaret, 68
  • Costes, Gautier de (works by), 64, 71, 78
  • Cowper, Sarah, 39, 170–71
  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 63, 133

D

  • Dacier, André, 135–6
  • debate
  • religious/political, 20, 22, 34–7, 41–8
  • skills of, 49n10
  • Delaval, Elizabeth, 42–3, 60, 70–75, 82–4, 187–8, 190
  • Descartes, René, 130–31, 134–41, 150, 162–4
  • digital resources, 9–11, 16n45–7
  • Donne, John, 35
  • Drake, Judith, 65, 83
  • Dunton, Elizabeth, 23

E

  • education, 25, 59, 151n6, 167
  • Egerton, Frances, 3, 65, 87n38, 174–6
  • Eikon Basilike, 45–6
  • Elizabeth I, 28, 170
  • Evelyn, John, 25, 59–61, 104, 130–31, 173, 183n67
  • Evelyn, Mary, 25, 59–61, 101, 130–31
  • extensive reading, 28, 30, 52n48, 61–2, 96, 113, 121n21, 135, 137

F

  • family relationships, 28, 31–3, 43–4, 98–105, 107–9, 143, 155n65, 166–7, 172–4
  • Fanshawe, Ann, 94
  • female friendships, 78, 172
  • Finch, Anne, 102–3, 105
  • Freke, Elizabeth, 133, 156n78, 161
  • funeral sermons, 22–5, 37, 41, 168

G

  • Gerard, John, 132–3
  • gift inscriptions, 27, 31, 34, 54n72, 134, 143, 172
  • Glorious Revolution, 97, 106
  • Gouge, William, 20–22, 26, 73
  • Grey, Margaret, 99

H

  • habit, 19, 22–5, 31, 37
  • Halkett, Anne, 94
  • Halley, Edmund, 137–8
  • Hanbury, Dorothy, 23
  • Harley, Brilliana, 42, 95, 97, 101–2
  • Hatcher, Ellenor, 175
  • Hatton Helsby, Mary, 60, 70, 76–8, 83–4, 97, 103–5
  • Heath, Margaret, 26, 133
  • Herbert, Elizabeth, 173
  • histories, 59, 167, 174–5
  • Hobart, Frances, 22–4, 39
  • Hoby, Margaret, 3, 34–43, 54n76, 55n99, 187, 190
  • Horsington, Sarah, 145–50, 157n83
  • Houghton, Margaret, 24
  • Howard, Anne, 65
  • Hoyle, Elizabeth, 23
  • Hudson, Sarah, 142
  • Hutchinson, Lucy, 56n117, 94–5

I

  • Isham, Elizabeth, 60, 70, 74–5, 84

J

  • Jacobitism, 70, 106, 115–16
  • James I and VI, 32, 35, 67, 115, 165–6, 169, 174
  • James II and VII, 104, 106, 115
  • Jesuit, 26

K

  • Kemp, Mary, 173

L

  • languages (reading of)
  • French, 80, 131, 135–6, 162–4
  • Greek, 148
  • Latin, 68, 115, 145, 147–9
  • Ley, Anne, 167–70
  • Ley, Roger, 167–9
  • literacy, 8, 16n43, 22
  • Lloyd, Mary, 175–6
  • Locke, John, 164
  • London Gazette, 104, 110, 112–13
  • Lowther, Elizabeth, 176–8
  • Lyttelton, Elizabeth, 166–7, 169

M

  • Makin, Bathsua, 131
  • Malebranche, Nicolas, 134–41, 150
  • Manley, Delarivier, 94
  • Manners, Katherine, 61–2
  • marginalia, 9–11, 26–37, 52n39, 66–8, 95, 130, 134–41, 159–60, 162–6, 172–5
  • lack thereof, 120n17
  • ownership inscriptions, 10–11, 26–8, 33, 35, 68–9, 87n37, 88n54, 113, 134, 142–3, 145, 149, 170, 172–3, 175
  • printed marginalia, 27, 147
  • Marvell, Andrew, 46, 58n147
  • melancholy, 74
  • memorialisation, 160, 169
  • Mildmay, Grace, 38–40, 188
  • Milton, John, 46, 58n147
  • Mordaunt, Elizabeth, 96–7, 104–5

N

  • Newdigate, Richard (1st Baronet), 107, 109
  • Newdigate, Richard (2nd Baronet), 107–9
  • Nine Years’ War, 103, 113
  • Norden, John, 30
  • Norris, John, 135, 137

O

  • Osborne, Dorothy, 60, 70, 75–84, 187, 190

P

  • Packer, Elizabeth, 101
  • Parliamentarianism, 47, 101
  • Pawley, Francis, 26
  • Pepys, Elizabeth, 76
  • Pepys, Samuel, 76
  • Perceval, Katherine, 26
  • piety, 5–7, 20–25, 48, 73, 187
  • Plat, Hugh, 175–6
  • plays, 64, 174
  • Plessis–Mornay, Phillippe du, 35–6
  • poetry, 29, 64, 77, 167–9
  • Pole, Anne, 96–7, 106–18, 124n69, 187
  • Pole, German, 107–9
  • Pole, Samuel, 107–8, 117
  • prayer, 23, 30, 37, 53n61
  • Presbyterianism, 71–2, 102
  • profit, 60, 64, 72, 75, 77, 82
  • Puckering, Cicely, 23
  • Puckering, Elizabeth, 65
  • Puritanism, 26, 42, 73–4

Q

  • Quakers, 94

R

  • Rage of Party, 43, 97
  • re–reading, 38–40, 66, 150, 159–71, 178–9, 188
  • Rhodes, Richard, 34, 37, 40–42
  • Rich, Diana, 78–9
  • Rich, Mary, 69, 88n59
  • Rowe, Abigall, 134
  • Rowe, Mary, 134
  • Royalism, 26, 34, 43, 47, 62, 67, 77, 103–4, 106, 108, 164, 169

S

  • Sadleir, Anne, 33, 43–8, 187
  • Scudéry, Madeleine de, 64–5, 71, 76, 78–80, 91n103
  • servants, 32, 71–2
  • sexuality, 5, 63, 85n16, 86n22, 187
  • Sidney, Philip, 35, 62, 64, 66, 74–5
  • Arcadia, 85n12, 87n41
  • Sleigh, Elizabeth, 133
  • Spenser, Edmund, 66, 74, 77, 91n95

T

  • Temple, William, 77–83
  • Thirty Years’ War, 98–9, 101
  • Tollemache, Elizabeth, 115–17
  • Townshend, Anne, 68
  • travelogues, 167, 175

V

  • Villiers, George (1st Duke of Buckingham), 32, 166
  • Vives, Juan Luis, 5–6

W

  • Weldon, Anthony, 67, 165–6, 181n29
  • Wentworth Watson, Anne, 145, 150
  • Whately, William, 21–2, 34, 73
  • widowhood, 63, 98, 108–9
  • Williams, Roger, 45–7
  • Winch, Rebecca, 144
  • Wolfreston, Frances, 10–12, 60, 172–4
  • Woolley, Hannah, 64–5, 83, 144, 156n76
  • Wroth, Mary, 65

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