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Historical The Tudor Housewife By Alison Sim ISBN: 0-7509-1875-6 $25 / Sutton Publ. / Wars, empires, dynastiesthese are the things history is made of. Yet The Tudor Housewife discusses in detail the household duties of 16th-century English women, including what marriage meant to women, the rituals of childbirth, the value placed on education for girls, the role religion played in that education, and what was involved in keeping house, home, and pantry. (The details of how to bleach fabric are fascinating!) The book explores the career options open to women and how they traveled those paths. The author has written a scholarly but readable book that details the renaissance women's impact on daily life. The Tudor Housewife is well illustrated with both color and black and white imagery. This is a wonderful resource for understanding what women did to maintain the basic fabric of society while men were fighting wars, building empires, and destroying dynasties. —Christina Neitz

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