Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England

Valerie Wayne is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa,USA.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsNote on TextsList of Abbreviations1. Introduction: Locating Women’s LabourValerie Wayne, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USAPart One: Making Books: Paper, Publishers, Printers2. English Rag-women and Early Modern Paper ProductionHeidi Craig, Texas A&M University, USA, and Editor, World Shakespeare Bibliography3. Widow Publishers in London, 1540 - 1640Alan B. Farmer, Ohio State University, USA4. Female Stationers and Their Second-plus HusbandsSarah Neville, Ohio State University, USA5. Left to Their Own Devices: Sixteenth-century Widows and their Printers’ DevicesErika Boeckeler, Northeastern University, USA6. 'Famed as far as one finds books': Women in the Dutch and English Book TradeMartine van Elk, California State University, Long Beach, USAPart Two: Making Texts: Authors and Editors7. Isabella Whitney amongst the Stalls of Richard JonesKirk Melnikoff, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA8.'All by her directing': The Countess of Pembroke and her ArcadiaSarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College, USA9. Katharine Lee Bates and Women’s Editions of Shakespeare for StudentsMolly Yarn, Independent Scholar, USAPart Three: Marking Books: Owners, Readers, Collectors, Annotators10. Patterns in Women’s Book Ownership, 1500 - 1700Georgianna Ziegler, Folger Shakespeare Library, USA11. Reader, Maker, Mentor: The Countess of Huntingdon and her NetworksElizabeth Zeman Kolkovich, Ohio State University, USA12. Frances Wolfreston’s Annotations as Labours of LoveLori Humphrey Newcomb, University of Illinois, USA13. Afterword: Widows, Orphans and Other ErrorsHelen Smith, University of York, UKIndex

As comparative transnational history and gender history become more popular intersections with book history, Women’s Labour and the History of the Book will remain an important foundation ... Wayne and her collaborators not only contribute valuable content but establish a careful framework for scholars to build on, and for that, they should rightfully continue to be lauded.