Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Series Editors’ Preface viii
5. Notes and Conventions xi
6. Introduction: Tracing Early Modern Women’s Lives 1
7. Chapter 1 Constraints of the Courtroom and its Records 22
8. Chapter 2 Courtship and Marriage 43
9. Chapter 3 Sex and Slander 83
10. Chapter 4 Widows 117
11. Chapter 5 Afterlives: Case Studies in the Production of Alternative Truths 152
12. Conclusion: Shared Strategies in Women’s Self-Representation 181
13. Bibliography 187
14. Index 211