Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household - Whittle, Jane (Associate Professor of History, Exeter University) a Griffiths, Elizabeth (Associate Research Fellow, Exeter University)

In this vivid reconstruction of life in a seventeenth-century gentry household, the authors delve into the details of everyday life: how did a large, wealthy household in the English countryside acquire the goods and services it needed and wanted? Was household consumption an exclusively female sphere, or did men play an important role, too?