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Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the 16th
and 17th century
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals
/EH/EH36/browner1.html
Essay examines the borough of Southwark's history as a place where
the 'dissolute, loose and insolent' were apt to congregate.
A Celebration of Women Writers Living between 1601 and 1700
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/
women/_generate/1601-1700.html
Contains a range of original texts written by women in the 17th century.
Distinguished Women
www.distinguishedwomen.com
Includes several 17th-century women writers.
Mary Frith (aka Moll Cutpurse)
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/
etext/newgate/frith.htm
Notorious thief in 17th-century London who dressed as a man.
Mary Wroth
www.english.cam.ac.uk/wroth/startp.htm
Comprehensive site dedicated to Mary Wroth, the first English woman
writer to have published an original work of prose fiction.
Gay History and Literature
www.rictornorton.co.uk
Rictor Norton's website devoted to gay history, including Francis
Bacon and James I.
People with a History
www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/
Online guide to the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered
people.
Contesting Cultural Norms: Cross-Dressing
www.wwnorton.com/nael/17century/
topic_1/mulier.htm
Discusses evidence that men felt that women dressing as men was a
challenge to their authority.
Books
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 by Lawrence Stone (Penguin, 1990)
Immensely detailed scholarly account of the changing relations between the sexes in early modern England and how this radically influenced child rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.
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The Weaker Vessel: Women's lot in 17th-century England by Antonia Fraser (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002)
Brings to life such women as governesses, milkmaids, fishwives, nuns, defenders of castles and courageous courtesans, countesses, witches and widows.
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Close Readers: Humanism and sodomy in early modern England by Alan Stewart (Princeton University Press, 1997). Out of print; may be available from libraries or second-hand bookshops.
A detailed and highly academic contribution to modern gay scholarship on Renaissance art and literature.
Passions between Women: British lesbian culture 1668-1801 by Emma Donoghue (Scarlet Press, 1993)
An examination of 17th- and 18th-century lesbian culture, which covers topics such as group sex, sadomasochism and hermaphrodites.
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Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary representations in historical context by C J Summers (Harrington Park Press, 1998)
Examines homosexuality in the context of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Fanny Hill, Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn.
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Agnes Bowker's Cat: Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England by David Cressy (Oxford Paperbacks, 2001)
Scholarly account of how the orderly society of post-Reformation England coped with the cultural challenges posed by unusual beliefs.
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