The weaker vessel : woman's lot in seventeenth-century England
Fraser, Antonia, 1932-1993
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What were the women of the Civil War era like? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Antonia Fraser brings to life the many women she has researched.
Main title:
The weaker vessel : woman's lot in seventeenth-century England / Antonia Fraser.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993.
Collation:
xvi, 544 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 1984.
ISBN:
9780297783817 (hbk)
Dewey class:
305.420942305.4094206305.4305.42
Local class:
942.06088042
Language:
English
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BRN:
1952846