Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-313) and index.
Contents:
The birth of mankind, otherwise named The woman's book, corrected and augmented by Thomas Raynalde (1545) / Eucharius Roeslin -- The points of housewifery (1580) / Thomas Tusser --Selections from : The English gentlewoman (1631) / Richard Brathwaite --The complete woman (1639) / Jacques Du Bosc -- The mother's blessing (1616) / Dorothy Leigh. The form of solemnization of matrimony (1559) -- An homily of the state of matrimony (1563) -- Selections from The law's resolutions of women's rights (1632) -- Selections from : In laud and praise of matrimony, trans. Richard Taverner (1536?), and Defense of his declamation in praise of marriage (1519), trans. David Sider (1991) / Erasmus -- The instruction of a Christian woman, trans. Richard Hyrde (1529?), and The office and duty of an husband, trans. Thomas Paynell (1555?) / Juan Luis Vives -- A crystal glass for Christian women (1591) / Philip Stubbes -- Christian economy : or, A short survey of the right manner of erecting and ordering a family according to the scriptures, trans. Thomas Pickering (1609) / William Perkins --
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