The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth Century England [Mass Market Paperback]

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• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Methuen (1984)
• ASIN: B000XDN3QW
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,895,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We need more history books like this!, January 7, 2007

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Keaton Fan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weaker Vessel (Hardcover)

This is exactly the kind of women's history book that we need. Fraser's writing style is perfect for her subject, the lives of women in 17th-century England. She covers various aspects of women's lives: Political, domestic, social, professional, spiritual. We meet many remarkable women, such as Rachel, Lady Russell, who fought hard to save her husband William from execution; Catherine Sedley, the witty and strong-minded mistress of James II; Elizabeth Barry, beloved actress. Fraser includes all sorts of trivia without detracting from her main theme, an accomplishment in itself. Will she write more books like this? I hope so.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but a hard read, October 7, 2007

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Wandering Colorado Girl (South Dakota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weaker Vessel (Women in History) (Paperback)

I love Antonia Fraser's writing, but this is an extremely hard book to get through. The book relies upon a knowledge of 17th Century English history and so I had to delay reading it since the first time I picked it up my knowledge of the English Civil War was sketchy. I appreciated it more after reading other biographies but still took a while to get through. Not her best.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A worth reading, June 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Weaker Vessel (Paperback)

A very good book, well written and very interesting. It provides the reader with information about Seventeenth Century women from every class, noble and peasants alike. Every girl should read it. It will give them much more self-consciousness than 30 feminist treatises!