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

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

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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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