The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England

By (author): "Antonia Fraser"
Publish Date: 1984
The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England
ISBN1842126350
ISBN139781842126356
AsinThe Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England
Original titleThe Weaker Vessel
SeriesMedieval Women Boxset
What were the women of the Civil War era like? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Antonia Fraser brings to life the many women she has researched.