Elizabeth Spragins and Emily Colbert Cairns, “Following the Bloodlines in María de Zayas’s ‘El traidor contra su sangre,'” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 19.2 (2…

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Surprisingly, Early Modern Female Book Ownership has never before profiled a copy of John Donne’s oft reprinted Poems: With Elegies on the Authors Death, first published two years after the p…

This article traces the plight of the widows of Scottish soldiers who participated in the Thirty Years' War. Contrasting a number of strategies the women used in two main contrasting legal systems...

By Jade Scott As demonstrated by the contributions to this blog, the most compelling evidence for women’s book ownership is a signature or inscription. Yet often we are left with frustratingly few …

Welcome to the 113th update of the Oxford DNB, which adds sixteen new articles and seven portrait likenesses. Entries in this release have a special focus on the lives of early modern noblewomen in Br...

By Miles Deverson In depth research on a singular female early modern book owner can yield many insights into a particular time and place but we can also learn much about female book ownership by t…

This post offers a further installment in the ongoing story of the library of Katherine (Butler) Blount (1676-1753).[1] The date and circumstances under which Blount’s potentially substantial libra…

Elizabeth Grymeston’s Miscellanea, published posthumously in 1604 and then in three further editions in augmented form by 1618, continues to receive surprisingly limited scholarly attention. The book ...