First edition first impression. xii, 334pp, with black and white plate illustrations. Reddish-brown cloth-covered boards. 8vo. Cloth a little pushed and rubbed at extreme spine ends. Previous owner's name neatly written on the front free endpaper else neat,. clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust wrapper, not price clipped, a little bumped at extreme edges and slightly shelf worn.
A study of the female experience from Anglo-Saxon time to the end of the medieval era, with chapters on, for instance, marriage and motherhood, law codes, vernacular literature, women and work, widowhood, female monasticism, anchoresses and recluses etc.
