This book chronicles 300 years of women's education during this time. Barabara Whitehead examines this history from a feminist perspective, pointing to the subversive actions of the women of this period that led to the formation of academia as we know it.

Contents:
Introduction arbara Whitehead 1.Learning the Virtues: Convent Schools and Female Culture in Renaissance Florence Sharon T. Strocchia 2. Equal in Opportunity? The Education of Aristocratic Women 1450-1540 Sharon D. Michalove 3. The Pattern of Perfect Womanhood: Feminine Virtue, Pattern Books and the Fiction of the Clothworking Woman Stacey Shimizu 4. The Rei(g)ning of Women's Tongues in in English Books of Instruction and Rhetorics Catherine R. Eskin 5. The Literacy of Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe Howard Edelman 6. To Educate or Instruct? Du Bose and Fenelon on Women Colleen Fitzgerald 7. "Its Frequent Visitor": Death at Boarding School in Early Modern Europe Carolyn C. Lougee 8. 'A Knowledge Speculative and Practical': The Dilemma of Midwives Education in Early Modern Europe Adrianna E. Bakos

This is really my father's book. Dad was a great fan of Edward Lear, constantly reciting the Nonsense Poems throughout my childhood. He asked me, when I was a teenager, to quote the first line of a Lear limerick. Without reading the rest of the verse, Dad composed his own version using Lear's first line and he continued until he had rewritten all hundred and nine limericks, bringing them into the twentieth century. If this little book amuses and delights even a few people, I think Dad would be pleased. His motto in life was to put more into this world than he took out of it. I have tried, out of love for him, to enable him to leave a little more in this world. Barbara Whitehead (nee Lowe)

This book is design to inspire and encourage every reader that's going through sickness, disabilities, cituations, circumstances, test, trials or tribulations to set a goal for your life. Plant it, Water it, Nurture it and watch it grow.

Don't let your cituations determine your future. Be the best that God created you to be. Have no regrets, live life to the fullest.Put God first in everything that you do, and if you fall get back up and try again.Believe and you shall accomplish whatever you set out to do. Don't give up on life no matter what it looks like.