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Contributing an original dimension to the study of women in 16th-century England, this pioneering work examines the largest corpus of women’s private writings available: their wills. Through an intensive analysis of more than 1200 wills, women from all parts of the country and all strata of society are revealed as articulate, opportunistic, and cap

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This book is highly recommended for its topic, approach, and new perspectives on women's wills in the Tudor epoch. James presents her views with clarity and at a welcome pace. - George Lazaroiu, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, NY, and Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania Does James succeed in allowing us access to the voices of ordinary women? The answer is yes, and with an extraordinary level of detail. Her desire to focus on women's common experience, however, introduces the idea of a more universal Tudor woman than some historians would be willing to accept. But the book should be read by everyone interested in women's voices, especially in this period. The great strength of James's book is the amount of knowledge she has so admirably extracted from her sources. Wills really are so much more than mere transfers of property. - Judith Spicksley, University of York, UK

This book is highly recommended for its topic, approach, and new perspectives on women's wills in the Tudor epoch. James presents her views with clarity and at a welcome pace. - George Lazaroiu, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, NY, and Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania Does James succeed in allowing us access to the voices of ordinary women? The answer is yes, and with an extraordinary level of detail. Her desire to focus on women's common experience, however, introduces the idea of a more universal Tudor woman than some historians would be willing to accept. But the book should be read by everyone interested in women's voices, especially in this period. The great strength of James's book is the amount of knowledge she has so admirably extracted from her sources. Wills really are so much more than mere transfers of property. - Judith Spicksley, University of York, UK

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Susan E. James is an historian and independent researcher. She received her PhD from Cambridge University and is the author of Kateryn Parr: The Making of a Queen (Ashgate, 1999), The Feminine Dynamic in English Art (Ashgate, 2008), and a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

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