Introduction: absent husbands and unpartnered wives in early modern England
Housekeeping and forlorn travel in Arden of Faversham
The doorstep and the exchange in A warning for fair women
One man's calling in A woman killed with kindness
Women, work, and windows in Women beware women
The East India Company and the domestic economy in The launching of the Mary, or The seaman's honest wife
Epilogue: John and Anne Donne and the culture of business.