Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the
body. In Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, Janet …

Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Until recently, history writing
has been understood as a male enclave from which women were restricted, particularly prior …

This studyargues that female networks of conversation, correspondenceand patronage
formed the foundation for women's work in the'higher'realms of Shakespeare criticism and …

The first book of its kind to provide a full and comprehensive historical grounding of the
contemporary issues of gender and women in science. Women in Science includes a …

Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English
language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research has shown that …

Education is a protean discipline, which forms and is formed by ideas, practices, and
institutions. Alan Richardson has pointed out that as a thematic site for rethinking culture …

Letters denote exchange, even the unsent letter locked in a bureau drawer speaks of the
urge to converse if not the conviction to seal and send. For literate women in the …

Based on new research using previously unpublished sources, this compelling text is an in-
depth study of the history of nurse education in Ireland, presenting a new authoritative …

This book compares the formal education of the majority of girls in Britain and Ireland in the
nineteenth century. Previous books about 'Britain'invariably focus on England, and such …

Giving this presidential address for the History of Education Society (UK) has offered me an
opportunity to look over the history of women's and gender studies in the history of education …