This edition of The Instruction of a Christen Woman by is the first to provide the modern reader with the complete text of the single most influential book in Tudor England concerning women and how they should live their lives.

With the exception of Rowlandson's works, the writings in these volumes are the first complete, unabridged editions in modern times.

Reproduced here is the copy held at the Huntington Library.

This collection demonstrates that catechisms provide valuable insight into constructions of early modern maternity, and more broadly, into the degree of power and authority accorded to women in the early modern Protestant family.

These texts attest to the changing nature of gardening - from a largely subsistence endeavour to an artful practice that became defined in gendered terms.

The texts reprinted in these two volumes allow readers to reconstruct the history of recipes, both medical and culinary, from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, and situate that history within the larger scientific and ...

Reproduced here is the 1625 treatise A Warning to the Dragon and all his Angels which is a classic example of the kind of apocalyptic writing that predominates in late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century England.

She is best known today, however, for the works reproduced here.