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Women's work in early modern English literature and culture

by Michelle M. Dowd

HistoryEnglish literatureLiterature and societyWork in literatureHistory and criticismWorking class women in literatureLabor in literatureWorking class women

Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women.

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