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Article: Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2000
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Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720. By Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 480. $35.00.)
The authors of this study examine "women's experience of life and the world in early modern England," with main emphasis on the later Stuart era and the eighteenth century (1). Sadly, the text presents many problems, especially the far-reaching subject matter, which requires the authors to gloss over complex topics with vague generalizations. Sometimes the authors realize this fact: "Women's experiences ... [of marriage] were so various, influenced by so many different factors, that generalization is impossible" (147). ...