The social structure of sixteenth century Europe allowed women limited opportunities for involvement; they served largely as managers of their households. Women were expected to focus on practical domestic pursuits and activities that encouraged the betterment of their families, and more particularly, their husbands.

2021年3月14日 · Famous English women of the 17th century included the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 – 1731) and the writer Aphra Behn (1640 – 1689). In 1637 Amye Everard Ball was the first woman in England to be granted a patent (for making tinctures from flowers).

2008年12月1日 · Historians of women and gender, as we might expect, have had a different point of view. In her pioneering 1919 study of women’s working lives in seventeenth-century England, Alice Clark depicted a Golden Age in the medieval period, during which women enjoyed access to skilled and profitable work.

Women in the 17th century were second-class citizens, subject to their fathers from birth and later handed over like chattel to their husbands. Fastidious demands were placed upon them with regards to conduct and virtue which they were expected to …

2018年6月8日 · Discover many of the most interesting women in European History, including Teresa of Avila, Maria Theresa, Josephine de Beauharnais, and many others.

2019年5月29日 · In Europe in the Early Modern period, women worked an enormous range of jobs and professions. From farmwives who helped plant and harvest crops to fishmongers who sold their wares in markets to guildswomen who engaged in skilled labor, as well as artists, scholars, midwives, doctors, prostitutes, and servants, women participated in every corner ...

2017年7月5日 · Women rulers became more common in the 17th century, the Early Modern period. Here are some of the more prominent women rulers -- queens, empresses -- of that period, listed in order of their birth dates.

Women in the 19th Century: Representations of Women in Literature and Art in the 19th Century

Rather, they were living “on the margins” in seventeenth-century Europe, North America, and South America. Yet these women—one Jewish, one Catholic, one Protestant—left behind memoirs and writings that make for a spellbinding tale and that, in Davis’ deft narrative, tell us more about the life of early modern Europe than many an ...

2025年1月22日 · Spanning a date range of 1600-1968, the resource offers avenues to explore the differing conditions in which women have lived in the UK and Ireland during the last four centuries, from experiences of wartime, witch trials, suffrage and feminist movements, to …