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  1. Amussen, Susan Dwyer, and Adele F Seeff. Attending to Early Modern Women. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998.
  2. Anderson, Michael. Approaches to the History of the Western Family, 1500-1914. London: Macmillan, 1980.
  3. Aries, Phillipe. Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life. Trans. Robert Baldrick. New York: Vintage Books, 1962.
  4. Arnold, Janet. Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women, C1560-1620. London: Macmillan, 1985.
  5. Bates, Catherine. The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  6. Bell, Ilona.. Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  7. Bell, Susan G, ed. Women: From the Greeks to the French Revolution. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1973.
  8. Best, Michael R. "Medical Use of a Sixteenth-Century Herbal." Bulletin of the History of Medicine l, iii? (1979): 449-58.
  9. Blake, John B. "The Compleat Housewife." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 49 (1975): 30-42.
  10. Boulding, Elise. The Underside of History: A View of Women through Time. Boulder: Westview Press, 1976.
  11. Brink, Jean R., Maryanne C. Horowitz, and Allison P. Coudert, eds. Playing with Gender: A Renaissance Pursuit. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
  12. Brooke, Christopher N. L. The Medieval Idea of Marriage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
  13. Brownlow, Frank Walsh. Shakespeare, Harsnett, and the Devils of Denham. Newark: Delaware U.P, 1993.
  14. Burford, E. J. Bawds and Lodgings: A History of the London Bankside Brothels. London: Peter Owen, 1976.
  15. Byrne, Muriel St. Clare. Elizabethan Life in Town and Country. London: Methuen, 1961.
  16. Cahn, Susan. Industry of Devotion: The Transformation of Women's Work in England, 1500-1660. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
  17. Camden, Charles Carroll. The Elizabethan Woman. London: Cleavery-Hume, 1952.
  18. Carlson, Eric Josef.. Marriage and the English Reformation. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell Pub., 1994.
  19. Cerasano, S.P., and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds. Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance. Detroit, Mich: Wayne State University Press, 1992.
  20. Charles, Lindsey, and Lorna Duffin. Women and Work in Pre-Industrial England. London: Croom Helm, 1985.
  21. Chicago, Judy. The Dinner Party. New York: Doubleday, 1973.
  22. Clark, Alice. Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century. New York: Harcourt Brace and Rowe, 1920.
  23. Clark, Cumberland. Shakespeare and Home Life. London: Williams & Norgate Ltd., 1935.
  24. Cook, Ann Jennalie. "The Mode of Marriage in Shakespeare's England." Southern Humanities Review 2 (1977): 126-32.
  25. Cook, Ann Jennalie. "Wooing and Wedding: Shakespeare's Dramatic Distortion of the Customs of His Time." Shakespeare's Art from a Comparative Aspect. Ed. Wendell M. Aycock. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1981.
  26. Corbin, Peter, and Douglas Sedge. "Three Jacobean Witchcraft Plays." 1986.
  27. De Mause, Lloyd. The History of Childhood. New York: Harper and Row, 1975.
  28. Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English. Witches Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers. Old Westbury, New York: Feminist Press, 1973.
  29. Erickson, Amy Louise. Women and Property in Early Modern England. London: Routledge, 1993.
  30. Fildes, Valerie. Breasts, Bottles and Babies: A History of Infant Feeding. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1986.
  31. Forbes, Thomas R. The Midwife and the Witch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.
  32. Frye, Roland M. "The Teachings of Classical Puritanism on Conjugal Love." Studies in the Renaissance 2 (1955): 148-59.
  33. Furnivall, F. J, ed. Child Marriages, Divorces, and Ratifications, Etc., in the Diocese of Chester, 1561-6. London: E.E.T.S, 1897.
  34. Fussell, G.E, and K.R. The English Countrywoman. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1971.
  35. Garber, Marjorie, ed. Cannibals, Witches and Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
  36. Hoby, Margaret. Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605. Ed Dorothy M. Meads. London: Routledge and Sons, 1930.
  37. Hogrefe, Pearl. Tudor Women: Commoners and Queens. Ames, Iowa: Iowa University Press, 1975.
  38. Hogrefe, Pearl. Women of Action in Tudor England. Ames, Iowa: Iowa University Press, 1975.
  39. Holbrook, David. Images of Woman in Literature. New York: New York University Press, 1989.
  40. Hole, Christina. English Home Life, 1500-1800. London: Batsford, 1947.
  41. Hole, Christina. The English Housewife in the Seventeenth Century. London: Chatto & Windus, 1953.
  42. Houlbrooke, Ralph A. The English Family, 1450-1700. London: Longman, 1984.
  43. Hughes, Muriel Joy. Woman Healers in Medieval Life and Literature. New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1968.
  44. Hull, Suzanne W.. Women According to Men: The World of Tudor-Stuart Women. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 1996.
  45. Hunter, Lynette, and Sarah Hutton, eds. Women, Science and Medicine 1500-1700: Mothers and Sisters of the Royal Society. Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1997.
  46. Ingram, Martin. Church Courts, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1570-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  47. Jordan, Constance. Renaissance Feminism: Literature Texts and Political Models. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.
  48. Karras, Ruth. "The Regulation of Brothels in Later Medieval England." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14 (1989): 426.
  49. Kermode, Jennifer and Garthine Walker, eds.. Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England. London: UCL Press, 1994.
  50. King, Margaret L. Women of the Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
  51. Klein, Joan Larsen. Daughters, Wives, and Widows: Writings by Men About Women and Marriage in England,1500-1640. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
  52. MacDonald, Michael. Bibliography on the Family from the Fields of Theology and Philosophy. Ottawa: Vanier Institute of the Family, 1964.
  53. Markham, Gervase. The English Housewife. Ed Michael R Best. Toronto: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986.
  54. McLaren, Dorothy, and Valerie A Fildes. Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England: Essays in Memory of Dorothy Mclaren. New York: Routledge, 1990.
  55. McSheffrey, Shannon, ed. Love and Marriage in Late Medieval London. Kalamazoo, Mich: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995.
  56. Mertes, Kate. The English Noble Household, 1250-1600: Good Governance and Politic Rule. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1988.
  57. Musek, Rosemary. "Women in an Age of Transition, 1485-1714." The Women of England from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present. Ed. Barbara Kanner. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1979.
  58. Newman, Karen. Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
  59. Notestein, Wallace. "The English Woman, 1580-1650." Studies in Social History. Ed. J. H. Plumb. London: Longmans Green, 1955.
  60. Noyes, Gertrude E. Bibliogaphy of Courtesy and Conduct Books in Seventeenth-Century England. New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co., 1937.
  61. Orlin, Lena Cowen. Elizabethan Households: An Anthology. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1995.
  62. Otten, Charlotte F, ed. English Women's Voices. Miami: Florida International University Press, 1992.
  63. Paston Family. Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century. Ed Norman Davis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
  64. Pearson, Lu Emily. Elizabethans at Home. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1957.
  65. Pinchbeck, Ivy, and Margaret Hewitt. Children in English Society from Tudor Times to the Eighteenth-Century. Vol. 1. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 2 vols. vols.
  66. Powell, Chilton Latham. English Domestic Relations, 1487-1653. New York: Columbia University Press, 1917.
  67. Quaife, G. R. Wanton Wenches and Wayward Wives: Peasants and Illicit Sex in Early Seventeenth Century England. London: Croom Helm, 1979.
  68. Rose, Mary Beth, ed. Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
  69. Sachs, Hannelore. The Renaissance Woman. Ed D. T. Rice. Trans. Marianne Herzfield. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
  70. Schanzer, Ernest. "The Marriage-Contracts in Measure for Measure." Shakespeare Survey 13 (1960).
  71. Scott, A. F. Witch, Spirit, Devil. London: White Lion, 1974.
  72. Shephard, Amanda. Gender and Authority in Sixteenth-Century England: The Knox Debate. Keele, Staffordshire: Ryburn Pub., 1994.
  73. Shorter, Edward. A History of Women's Bodies. New York: Basic Books, 1982.
  74. Shorter, Edward. The Making of the Modern Family. New York: Basic Books, 1975.
  75. Sizemore, Christine W. "Early Seventeenth-Century Advice Books: The Female Viewpoint." South Atlantic Bulletin 41 (1976): 41-8.
  76. Springer, Marlene. "The Changing Image of Woman in Renaissance Society and Literature." What Manner of Woman. Ed. Marlene Springer. New York: New York University Press, 1977.
  77. Stenton, Doris. "On the 'Homily on Matrimony'." Women: From the Greeks to the French Revolution. Ed. Susan G Bell. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1973. 218-20.
  78. Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977.
  79. Summers, Claude J. and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds.. Representing Women in Renaissance England. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997.
  80. Thompson, John Lee. John Calvin and the Daughters of Sarah: Women in Regular and Exceptional Roles in the Exegesis of Calvin, His Predecessors, and His Contemporaries. Geneve, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 1992.
  81. Thomson, John A.F, ed. Towns and Townspeople in the Fifteenth Century. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1988.
  82. Thynne, Joan (1558-1612). Two Elizabethan Women: Correspondence of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611. Ed Alison D. Wall. London: Devizes, 1983.
  83. Tilly, Louise A, and Joan W Scott. Women, Work, and Family. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.
  84. Travitsky, Betty, and Patrick Cullen. The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Part 1, Printed Writings, 1500-1640. Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, 1996.
  85. Tusser, Thomas. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Ed E.V. Lucas. London: James Tregaskis and Son, 1931 (1580).
  86. Tusser, Thomas. Thomas Tusser: His Good Points of Husbandry. Ed Dorothy Hartley. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1970 (1931 [1557]).
  87. Walker, Sue Sheridan.. Wife and Widow in Medieval England. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
  88. Warnicke, Retha M. Women of the English Renaissance and Reformation. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983.
  89. Winchester, Barbara. Tudor Family Portrait. London: Jonathan Cape, 1955.