Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household: The World of Alice Le Strange

by Jane Whittle (Author), Elizabeth Griffiths (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2012

  $187.12

  In this vivid reconstruction of life in a seventeenth-century gentry household, the authors delve into the details of everyday life: how did a large, wealthy household in the English countryside acquire the goods and services it needed and wanted? Was household consumption an exclusively female sphere, or did men play an important role, too?