City Women
Money, Sex, and the Social Order in Early Modern London
Eleanor Hubbard
Reviews and Awards
Best Book on Women and Gender 2012 Prize Winner, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
"[I]mpressive in the depth of its archival research, sophistication of it quantitative analyses, and inventive in its collective biography. It will be both a major intervention in its field and an indispensable resource for scholars."--Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Prize Committee
"Written with grace and authority, this scholarly achievement makese major contributions to urban history, gender history, and the history of social interaction."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Hubbard does an excellent job of drawing out individual voices and stories from the records; combined with a very attractive prose style and well-presented figures and tables, these make this an uncommonly accessible book."--History Workshop Journal
"This highly readable monograph by Eleanor Hubbard is a first-rate addition to a historiography that has sought to understand how the rigid gender ideals evidenced in early modern prescriptive literature affected ordinary people."--European History Quarterly
"This book deserves a wide audience and should become a staple on university reading lists in English and history courses."--H-Albion