Bücher der Reihe The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works Series III, Part Two

Jestbooks offer an important viewpoint on the lives of women in early modern England. This volume reproduces seven jestbooks with connections to early modern Englishwomen as well as showing something of the broad genre itself.

A dialectic of attack on and defence of the female sex was popular among authors and readers during the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries in England. The works included in these two volumes exemplify the content and the methods of debate in England during those two centuries.