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- Best, Michael R. "Medical Use
        of a Sixteenth-Century Herbal." Bulletin of the History
        of Medicine l, iii? (1979): 449-58.
      
 - Blake, John B. "The Compleat
        Housewife." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 49
        (1975): 30-42.
      
 - Cahn, Susan. Industry of
        Devotion: The Transformation of Women's Work in England,
        1500-1660. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
      
 - Charles,
        Lindsey, and Lorna Duffin. Women and Work in
        Pre-Industrial England. London: Croom Helm, 1985.
      
 - Ehrenreich,
        Barbara, and Deirdre English. Witches Midwives and
        Nurses: A History of Women Healers. Old Westbury, New
        York: Feminist Press, 1973.
      
 - Emmison, F.G. Tudor Food and
        Pastimes. London: Ernest Benn, 1964.
      
 - Furnivall, Frederick
        J, ed. The Babees Book. London: Early English
        Text Society, 1868.
      
 - Fussell, G.E, and K.R.
        The English Countrywoman. New York: Benjamin Blom,
        1971.
      
 - Herbert, George. The
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        Clarendon Press, 1953.
      
 - Hole, Christina. The
        English Housewife in the Seventeenth Century. London:
        Chatto & Windus, 1953.
      
 - Markham, Gervase. The
        English Housewife. Ed Michael R Best. Toronto:
        McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986.
      
 - Mertes, Kate. The English
        Noble Household, 1250-1600: Good Governance and Politic
        Rule. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1988.
      
 - Orlin, Lena Cowen.
        Elizabethan Households: An Anthology. Washington,
        D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 1995.
      
 - Paston Family. Paston
        Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century. Ed Norman
        Davis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
      
 - Shephard, Amanda. Gender
        and Authority in Sixteenth-Century England: The Knox
        Debate. Keele, Staffordshire: Ryburn Pub., 1994.
      
 - Sizemore, Christine W.
        "Early Seventeenth-Century Advice Books: The Female
        Viewpoint." South Atlantic Bulletin 41 (1976):
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