Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Absent Husbands and Unpartnered Wives in Early Modern England

1. Housekeeping and Forlorn Travel in Arden of Faversham

2. The Doorstep and the Exchange in A Warning for Fair Women

3. One Man’s Calling in A Woman Killed with Kindness

4. Women, Work, and Windows in Women Beware Women

5. The East India Company and the Domestic Economy in The Launching of the Mary, or The Seaman’s Honest Wife

Epilogue: John and Anne Donne and the Culture of Business

Notes

Bibliography

Index