This volume brings modern scholarship to the study of the transition of English and Anglo-American women from a population of near total illiteracy in 1500 to a population where at least half could read in 1800. As women became readers, they became an important market force and gained cultural influence. Material culture and the intersection of female activities with reading is emphasized. Contributors include Mary Ellen Lamb, Sasha Roberts, Mary Kelley, Bianca F.-C. Calabresi, Caroline Winterer, Catherine E. Kelly, Ian Frederick Moulton, Janice Knight, Margaret Ferguson, Susan M. Stabile, Robert A. Gross. FINE/LIKE NEW. List $59.95. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2008. Hb, Dj. USED. $35.00