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.
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