Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 by Heidi Brayman Hackel, Catherine E. Kelly

Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800

Heidi Brayman Hackel, Catherine E. Kelly

280 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

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In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English an...

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