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  • 25 - Gentlewomen’s reading

  • from III - THE LAY READER
  • Edited by Lotte Hellinga, J. B. Trapp
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    09 December 1999, pp 526-540

  • Summary

    Most fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century books which explicitly recommend themselves to women are directed to those who claim or aspire to gentility. Some of the books itemized in the will of Anne Andrew of Suffolk, England, are her best massbook and second massbook, which she left, respectively, to the altar of St Blaise in Wetherden church, and to her son, Andrew, respectively. Although she had access to various potential sources of books, Beatrice Lynne's single personal record is left, entirely typically, in a devotional manuscript which was to be passed by another woman to a community of female religious. Within the precinct at Aldgate, books on secular subjects seem to have been available. A manuscript copy of William Caxton's editions of The Game of the Chesse and The Cordyall, made in 1484 by Dominus Grace, came into the possession of Dame Margaret Woodward.