A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650

The contributors to this large volume are many and vary from academic institutions across the UK and North America in particular, and also a number billed as independent scholars who clearly specialize in the stories of the many little-known women that make up the bulk of the volume. The best-known are likely to be those designated Royal Family, but the rest are grouped under genres as diverse as criminals, entrepreneurs, litigants, madwomen, mistresses and an all-encompassing mothers, daughters, wives and widows, not showing merely their relationship to more famous men in their environment, but actually how they influenced a range...