Perdita manuscripts

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Includes complete facsimile images of over 230 manuscripts written or compiled by women living in the British Isles during the 16th and 17th centuries. Document formats include, but are not limited to: account books, advice, commonplace books, culinary writing, meditations, travel writing, and verse.

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British Studies Gender Studies History