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The Weaker Vessel

Antonia Fraser

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The Weaker Vessel

The renowned historian and biologist Lady Antonia Fraser investigates the lot of women in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on period diaries, letters, and other papers, Fraser sketches portraits of a variety of women, both highborn and humble, during the tumultuous century between the death of Elizabeth and Queen Anne's assumption of the throne. More than a collection of female biographies, The Weaker Vessel offers fresh insight into its subjects' attitudes and lives, with appearances by heiresses and dairy maids, holy women and prostitutes, criminals and educators, widows and witches, midwives and mothers, heroines, courtesans, prophetesses, businesswomen, ladies of the court, and that new breed, the actress.

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Publisher
Vintage
Year
2014
ISBN-13
9780804153416
Genre
History
Topics
Women's history17th-century EnglandSocial history

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Other awarded books from Antonia Fraser

  • Marie Antoinette: The Journey
  • The Six Wives of Henry VIII

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