Daughters, wives, and widows : writings by men about women and marriage in England, 1500-1640 / edited by Joan Larsen Klein.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Klein, Joan Larsen, 1931-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1992.
Subjects:	Women > England > History > 16th century. Women > England > History > 17th century. Marriage > England > History > 16th century. Marriage > England > History > 17th century.

Table of Contents:

The form of solemnization of matrimony (1559)
An homily of the state of matrimony (1563)
Selections from The law's resolutions of women's rights (1632)
In laud and praise of matrimony, trans. Richard Taverner (1536?), and Defense of his declamation in praise of marriage (1519), trans. David Sider (1991) / Erasmus
Selections from The instruction of a Christian woman, trans. Richard Hyrde (1529?), and The office and duty of an husband, trans. Thomas Paynell (1555?) / Juan Luis Vives
A crystal glass for Christian women (1591) / Philip Stubbes
Christian economy : or, A short survey of the right manner of erecting and ordering a family according to the scriptures, trans. Thomas Pickering (1609) / William Perkins.
(cont.) [The birth of mankind, otherwise named The woman's book, corrected and augmented by Thomas Raynalde (1545) / Eucharius Roeslin
The points of housewifery (1580) /Thomas Tusser
Selections from : The English gentlewoman (16310 /Richard Brathwaite
The complete woman (1639) / Jacques Du Bosc
The mother's blessing (1616) / Dorothy Leigh.]

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