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The weaker vessel /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, �1984.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xvi, 544 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0394513517
  • 9780394513515
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.4/0942 19
LOC classification:
  • HQ1593 .F7 1984
Other classification:
  • MS 3000
Contents:
Prologue: How weak? -- pt. 1: As it was--this blessed knot. A wife sought for wealth ; Affection is false ; Crown to her husband ; The pain and the peril ; Are you widows? ; Poor and atrabilious ; Unlearned virgins ; Living under obedience --Pt. 2: With the war--stronger grown. Courage above her sex ; His comrade ; A soliciting temper ; Sharing in the commonwealth ; When women preach -- pt. 3: Afterwards--a continual labour. Worldly goods ; Divorce from bed and board ; Benefiting by accomplishments ; Petticoat-authors ; Helping in God's vineyard ; The delight of business ; Wanton and free ; Actress as honey-pot ; The modest midwife -- Epilogue: How strong?
Summary: "Women in 17th-century England--heiresses and dairymaids, holy women and prostitutes, criminals and educators, widows and witches, midwives and mothers, heroines, courtesans, prophetesses, businesswomen, ladies of the court, and that new breed, the actress."
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 305.4 FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) HQ1593 Available 34562000043587

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-518) and index.

Prologue: How weak? -- pt. 1: As it was--this blessed knot. A wife sought for wealth ; Affection is false ; Crown to her husband ; The pain and the peril ; Are you widows? ; Poor and atrabilious ; Unlearned virgins ; Living under obedience --Pt. 2: With the war--stronger grown. Courage above her sex ; His comrade ; A soliciting temper ; Sharing in the commonwealth ; When women preach -- pt. 3: Afterwards--a continual labour. Worldly goods ; Divorce from bed and board ; Benefiting by accomplishments ; Petticoat-authors ; Helping in God's vineyard ; The delight of business ; Wanton and free ; Actress as honey-pot ; The modest midwife -- Epilogue: How strong?

"Women in 17th-century England--heiresses and dairymaids, holy women and prostitutes, criminals and educators, widows and witches, midwives and mothers, heroines, courtesans, prophetesses, businesswomen, ladies of the court, and that new breed, the actress."

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