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The role of women was determined around the time philosophers and scientists, all males, were controlling society. I was also extremely fortunate to have the financial assistance of the Monash Postgraduate Publications Award, and the Australian Fed-eration of University Women, who awarded me a fellowship to carry out archival research in England and Europe. Women took on roles such as acting as farmhands and tending to their vegetable gardens. ��QqB0�4%{Y��d�~����W�Y?j,6���7S��2a�W.�h�y#���^���T�v�W�١oըj�2���"\��˚y���Hk��V�ت��6�ɲ%�Cb Very often in the countryside the housewife also made the family candles and their soap. England in the 17th century was a thoroughly male affair. Seventeenth-century England was characterized by a pervasive system of inequality in which each person had a distinctive place in a hierarchy based on age, wealth, and family standing." In the 17th century most women were wives and mothers. Sixteenth-Century Women's Letters James Daybell University of Plymouth, UK This article examines obedience and authority through the lens of sixteenth-century women's correspondence as a way of unlocking the gendered nature of deferential behavioral codes and social attitudes in early modern England. In them girls were taught subjects like writing, music and needlework. 2y�.-;!���K�Z� ���^�i�"L��0���-��
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