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almanack
Author_Alan S. Weber
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british
British Library Copy
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chiromancy analysis
copy
Countrymen
Doe
early modern astrology
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erSu N
fair
female almanac writers in seventeenth century
Fide
Follow
French Whores
Fti
full
IJ
Ill
jinner
library
moon
Morning
N O Ah
Odd
Os
Pf
popular culture studies
prophecy interpretation
pseudonymous authorship
Rbc
Sa Lisbu Ry
sarah
Sarah Jinner
T Ra
Tat
Tow Er
Vp
Wo
woman's
Woman's Almanack
women's medical history
Product details
- ISBN 9780754602156
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 123 x 186mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Almanacs were highly influential on popular opinion during the early modern period. They were the least expensive kinds of books and had a practical use as a calendar, literary miscellany, weather guide and advertising medium. The almanacs in this volume contribute to our understanding of women's participation in popular culture, astrology, medicine and prophecy. Sarah Jinner's almanacs for the years 1658, 1659 and 1664, and Mary Holden's almanacs for 1688 and 1689 show a conscious effort to distance themselves from other female religious prophets of the period by relying on the status of astrology as a rational science. The other works in the volume are all attributed to writers who were probably pseudonymous. Dorothy Partridge's The Woman's Almanack for the Year 1694 includes several short articles on chiromancy. The Prophesie of Mother Shipton concerns the prediction of the deaths of Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell. The final works in the volume comprise two texts by Shinkin ap Shone which satirize the Welsh people and language, and The Woman's Alamanack by Sarah Ginnor which uses sexual humour to parody the medical advice offered in Jinner's almanacs.
Selected and Introduced by Alan S. Weber
