Women’s Libraries and Book Ownership, 1485–1557
摘要
This entry outlines the evidence for women’s book ownership in the early Tudor period. Scholarship in this field has become a growth area of early modern studies, although it has understandably focused on the more prolific contexts of the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Sources including wills, household accounts and inventories, donations lists, signatures and inscriptions, and women’s translations are discussed, as are sites such as convents, the royal court, and aristocratic houses. Case studies include the convent of Syon Abbey, aristocratic women and queens (Margaret Beaufort, Katherine Parr, Jane Grey), learned women/scholars (Alice Edwards, Mildred Cecil, Anne Bacon, Jane Lumley), and Agnes Cheke.