List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsNote on TextsList of Abbreviations

1. Introduction: Locating Women's Labour
Valerie Wayne, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA

Part One: Making Books: Paper, Publishers, Printers

2. English Rag-women and Early Modern Paper Production
Heidi Craig, Texas A&M University, USA, and Editor, World Shakespeare Bibliography

3. Widow Publishers in London, 1540 - 1640
Alan B. Farmer, Ohio State University, USA

4. Female Stationers and Their Second-plus Husbands
Sarah Neville, Ohio State University, USA

5. Left to Their Own Devices: Sixteenth-century Widows and their Printers' Devices
Erika Boeckeler, Northeastern University, USA

6. 'Famed as far as one finds books': Women in the Dutch and English Book Trade
Martine van Elk, California State University, Long Beach, USA

Part Two: Making Texts: Authors and Editors

7. Isabella Whitney amongst the Stalls of Richard Jones
Kirk Melnikoff, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

8.'All by her directing': The Countess of Pembroke and her Arcadia
Sarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College, USA

9. Katharine Lee Bates and Women's Editions of Shakespeare for Students
Molly Yarn, Independent Scholar, USA

Part Three: Marking Books: Owners, Readers, Collectors, Annotators

10. Patterns in Women's Book Ownership, 1500 - 1700
Georgianna Ziegler, Folger Shakespeare Library, USA

11. Reader, Maker, Mentor: The Countess of Huntingdon and her Networks
Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich, Ohio State University, USA

12. Frances Wolfreston's Annotations as Labours of Love
Lori Humphrey Newcomb, University of Illinois, USA

13. Afterword: Widows, Orphans and Other Errors
Helen Smith, University of York, UK

Index