Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.
Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widows?
An expert on the period, Antonia Fraser brings to life the many and various women she has encountered in her considerable research: governesses, milkmaids, fishwives, nuns, defenders of castles, courtesans, countesses, witches and widows.
- ISBN10 0394513517
- ISBN13 9780394513515
- Publish Date 12 August 1984
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Alfred A. Knopf
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 544
- Language English