The Youth of Early Modern Women
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Edited by:
Elizabeth Storr Cohen
and Margaret Louise Reeves
About this book
Author / Editor information
Elizabeth S. Cohen is Professor emerita of History at York University in Toronto. Based on research in the criminal court records of early modern Rome, her articles explore themes of women, work, family, youth, artists, prostitution, crime, street rituals, self-representation, and oralities. With Thomas V. Cohen, she has co-authored Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome Trials Before the Papal Magistrates (University of Toronto Press, 1993) and Daily Life in Renaissance Italy, 2nd edition (ABC-Clio, 2019). With Margaret Reeves, she has co-edited The Youth of Early Modern Women (Amsterdam University Press, 2018).Reeves Margaret Louise :
Margaret Reeves teaches English literature at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She co-edited Shell Games: Studies in Scams, Frauds, and Deceits (1300-1650), co-authored a history of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, and has published essays on literary history as well as early modern women's writing.
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- Alison Williams Lewin, Renaissance Quarterly, Volume LXXIII, No. 2
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Part 1. Concepts and Representations
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Concepts of Childhood and Female Youth in Seventeenth- Century British Culture Margaret Reeves Open Access Download PDF |
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The Rover, Part I and Hellena’s Self-Creation of Youth Sarah Morris Open Access Download PDF |
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Talk of Young Women as Daughters, Wives, and Mothers in the Records of the English Consistory Courts, 1550–1650 Jennifer McNabb Open Access Download PDF |
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Female Youth, Agency, and Emotions in Sixteenth-Century New Spain Jacqueline Holler Open Access Download PDF |
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Swiss Renaissance Drawings of Young Women circa 1520 Christiane Andersson Open Access Download PDF |
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Part 2. Self-Representations: Life-Writing and Letters
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The Youths of Teresa de Jesús, María de San José, and Ana de San Bartolomé Barbara Mujica Open Access Download PDF |
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The Examples of Mary Boyle and Alice Wandesford Julie A. Eckerle Open Access Download PDF |
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The Early Years of Marriage as a Transition from Girlhood to Womanhood in the Letters of Three Generations of Orange- Nassau Women Jane Couchman Open Access Download PDF |
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Part 3. Training for Adulthood
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Forging Female Education in Early Modern Rome Alessandra Franco Open Access Download PDF |
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Michele Nicole Robinson Open Access Download PDF |
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Advice Literature for Young Adult Women of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Marja van Tilburg Open Access Download PDF |
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Part 4. Courtship and Becoming Sexual
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Roman Maids Become Young Women circa 1600 Elizabeth S. Cohen Open Access Download PDF |
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Young Women, Courtship, and the Night in Early Modern England Eleanor Hubbard Open Access Download PDF |
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Young Women, their Intimate Partners, and the Challenge of Fertility in Early Modern France Julie Hardwick Open Access Download PDF |
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