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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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