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My first monograph, Women’s Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2009) was completed with the support of a year-long Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Huntington Library and won the 2009 Sarah A. Whaley Book Award from the National Women’s Studies Association. Investigating texts by a wide range of canonical and non-canonical authors, such as William Shakespeare, Hannah Woolley, Thomas Heywood, Anne Clifford, and others, I consider several types of work—including service, wetnursing, and housework—that changed significantly during the seventeenth century, generating new literary formulations of women’s economic, political, and religious authority. I argue that fictional narratives about working women serve a crucial social function, namely to construe and define the limits of female authority within the shifting and contested labor economy of early modern England..
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