Sara Read

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Sara Read

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Average rating: 3.9 · 466 ratings · 71 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives, 1540–1740 3.84 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gossips’ Choice 4.07 avg rating — 58 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maladies and Medicine: Exploring Health & Healing, 1540–1740 by Sara Read, Jennifer Evans 3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Midwife's Truth 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives, 1540–1714 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Handy Guide to Pregnancy and Birth for the Seventeenth-century Woman it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Teenagers Guide to Self-Destruction 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Genders and Sexualities in History 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flesh and Spirit: An anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“this time excessive reading was thought to be damaging to girls’ physical and moral health,”
― Sara Read, Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives, 1540–1740

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“was normal for girls to be home educated, just sufficiently to be able to read, and many who learnt to read did not go on to learn to write.”
― Sara Read, Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives, 1540–1740

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“At the beginning of the period, women had not yet heard of the potato, which was introduced to England in the 1590s, and used carrots and turnips instead, yet by the end of the century potatoes had become an everyday foodstuff”
― Sara Read, Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives, 1540–1740

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