The English Housewife
The English Housewife

Author: Gervase Markham

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780773511033

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In 1615 Englishman Gervase Markham published a handbook for housewives that contains "all the virtuous knowledges and actions both of the mind and body, which ought to be in any complete housewife". Markham instructs and advises on everything from the plague to baldness and bad breath. Woodcut illustrations add a richness to this look at life during the Renaissance.

British Women's History
British Women's History

Author:

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780719046520

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This is one of a series of bibliographical guides designed to meet the needs of undergraduates, postgraduates and their teachers in universities and colleges of further education. All volumes in the series share a number of common characteristics. They are selective, manageable in size, and include those books and articles which are considered most important and useful. All are editied by practising teachers of the subject in question and are based on their experience of the needs of students. The arrangement combines chronological with thematic divisions. Most of the items listed receive some descriptive comment.

Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household
Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household

Author: Jane Whittle

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-03

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0199233535

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In this vivid reconstruction of life in a seventeenth-century gentry household, the authors delve into the details of everyday life: how did a large, wealthy household in the English countryside acquire the goods and services it needed and wanted? Was household consumption an exclusively female sphere, or did men play an important role, too?