@article{466938,
      recid = {466938},
      author = {Smith, Helen,},
      title = {'Grossly material things' : women and book production in  early modern England /},
      publisher = {Oxford University Press,},
      address = {Oxford :},
      pages = {viii, 254 p. :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions  as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and  economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's brief hint as  its starting point, asking who made the books of the  English Renaissance, and what the material circumstances  were in which they did so. It charts a new history of  making and use, recovering the ways in which women shaped  and altered the books of this crucial period, as  co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers,  booksellers, and readers. Drawing on evidence from a wide  range of sources, including court records, letters,  diaries, medical texts, and the books themselves, 'Grossly  Material Things' moves between the realms of manuscript and  print, and tells the stories of literary, political, and  religious texts from broadside ballads to plays, monstrous  birth pamphlets to editions of the Bible. In uncovering the  neglected history of women's textual labours, and the  places and spaces in which women went about the business of  making, Helen Smith offers a new perspective on the history  of books and reading. Where Woolf believed that  Shakespeare's sister, had she existed, would have had no  opportunity to pursue a literary career, 'Grossly Material  Things' paints a compelling picture of Judith Shakespeare's  varied job prospects, and promises to reshape our  understanding of gendered authorship in the English  Renaissance"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/466938},
}