Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London

Tim Reinke-Williams is Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton, UK. His research focuses on how ideas and practices of gender shaped the mentalities and experiences of women and men in early modern England. His publications include articles in the journals Gender and History and Continuity and Change.

• Introduction 1. Motherhood 2. Housewifery 3. Domestic Management 4. Retailing 5. Sociability Conclusion

“Reinke-Williams usefully builds on the work ofother scholars to investigate precisely how women actively acquired creditthrough motherhood, housewifery, domestic management, work, and sociability.His in-depth discussions of motherhood and women who took in lodgers areespecially novel and welcome additions to a literature that has focused onrelations between spouses and neighbors.” (Eleanor Hubbard, RenaissanceQuarterly, Vol. 68 (4), 2015)"Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London is a comprehensive, well-written and exciting addition to a growing scholarship investigating how the middling sort and labouring poor forged and expressed positive identities for themselves in early modern England, particularly through their work and sociability. It particularly opens up new directions for histories of women's work during thisperiod, moving away from the arguable binaries of previous historiography which has so often limited itself to particular evidence bases." - Reviews in History