Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies: Patriarchy, Partnership and Patronage by Rosemary O'Day

Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies: Patriarchy, Partnership and Patronage

Themes in British Social History

Rosemary O'Day

494 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

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Women in early modern Britain and colonial America were not the weak husband- and father-dominated characters of popular myth. Quite the reverse, strong women were the norm. They exercised considerable influence as important agents in the social, ...

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