Women's work in early modern English literature and culture

Description:

Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women.

subjects: History,  English literature,  Literature and society,  Work in literature,  History and criticism,  Working class women in literature,  Labor in literature,  Working class women,  Social conditions,  Housekeeping in literature,  Women,  Memorial bookplates,  Class on 1942,  Whitman College,  English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700,  Women in literature,  Women, employment, great britain,  Women, social conditions

Places: England

Times: 17th century,  Early modern, 1500-1700