The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (122 page)

Winchilsea, Charles Finch
(i)
th Earl of,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Winchilsea, Heneage Finch
(i)
rd Earl of,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Winchilsea, Heneage Finch
(i)
th Earl of,
(ii)

Windebank, Mrs,
(i)

Windham, Elizabeth
see
Maidstone, Viscountess

Winstanley, Gerrard,
(i)
,
(ii)

Winter, Sir John,
(i)

Winter, Lady Mary,
(i)

Wiseman, Charles,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Wiseman, Mrs,
(i)

Witch of Edmonton, The
(Rowley, Dekker, Ford, etc.),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

witchcraft, witches,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
; Chelmsford witches,
(vii)
,
(viii)
; associated with scolding and cursing,
(ix)
; trials of witches,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
; Belvoir witches,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
; Bideford witches,
(xviii)
,
(xix)
; white witches and ‘cunning folk’,
(xx)
; associated with red hair,
(xxi)
; and Anna Trapnel,
(xxii)
; Quaker women suspected,
(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
,
(xxv)
; and midwives,
(xxvi)
,
(xxvii)
;
see also
prophetesses

Withers, Jane,
(i)

Wives: legal position of,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
; ideal concepts of,
(ix)
,
(x)
; accomplishments and duties,
(xi)
; marital sex,
(xii)
; married love,
(xiii)
; constant pregnancies,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
; infertility,
(xvi)
; contraception,
(xvii)
; plight during Civil War,
(xviii)
; as
camp-followers,
(xix)
,
(xx)
; as nurses,
(xxi)
; as ‘solicitors’,
(xxii)
; and freedom of conscience,
(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
;
see also
childbirth; divorce; marriage; women

Woburn Abbey,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

women: inferiority of,
(i)
; sexual desires of,
(ii)
,
(iii)
; notion of ‘the softer sex’,
(iv)
,
(v)
; legal position of,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
; modesty,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
; and witchcraft,
(xviii)
; obedience,
(xix)
,
(xx)
,
(xxi)
; other virtues of,
(xxii)
; and old age,
(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
,
(xxv)
; in Low Countries,
(xxvi)
,
(xxvii)
; courage in Civil War,
(xxviii)
; physical strength of,
(xxix)
; frivolity of,
(xxx)
; unchanging status of,
(xxxi)
;
see also
accomplishments; appearance; childbirth; education; marriage; wives

Womens Complaint against their Bad Husbands, The
,
(i)

Women’s Petition (1659),
(i)

Women’s Sharpe Revenge, The
,
(i)

Womens Speaking
(Fell),
(i)

Wood, Anthony à,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Woodforde, Mary,
(i)

Woodforde, Samuel,
(i)

Woolley, Hannah,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)

Woolley, Richard,
(i)

Worcester, Charles Somerset Marquess of,
(i)
,
(ii)

Worcester, Battle of (1651),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Wordsworth, William,
(i)

Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century
(Clark),
(i)

Worlds Olio, The
(Newcastle),
(i)

Worthington, Alice,
(i)

Worthley, Grace,
(i)
,
(ii)

Wortley, Eleanor
see
Sussex, Countess of

Wootton, Sir Henry,
(i)

Wotton, William,
(i)

Wren, Sir Christopher,
(i)

Wright, Dr,
(i)

Wright, Jane,
(i)

Wright, Maria,
(i)

‘Wright, Robert’ (Robert Danvers, also Robert Villiers),
(i)
,
(ii)

Wright, Mrs (grandmother of Mary Ward),
(i)

Wright, Mrs (at siege of Brampton Bryan),
(i)

Wright, Thomas,
(i)

Wriothesley, Lady Elizabeth
see
Northumberland, Countess of

Wriothesley, Lady Rachel
see
Russell, Rachel Lady

Wroth, Cornet,
(i)

Wycherly, William,
(i)

Wythorne, Thomas,
(i)

Yeamans, Isabel
see
Fell, Isabel

York, Duchess of
see
Mry of Modena

York, James Duke of
see
James II

York,
(i)

York prison,
(i)
,
(ii)

Young, Nicholas,
(i)

Zouch, Lady,
(i)

A WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON EBOOK

First published in Great Britain in 1984 by William Heinemann.

First published in ebook in 2011 by Wiedenfeld & Nicolson

Copyright © Antonia Fraser 1984

The right of Antonia Fraser to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the copyright, designs and patents act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN: 978 1 7802 2066 6

Orion Books

The Orion Publishing Group Ltd

Orion House

5 Upper St Martin’s Lane

London WC2H 9EA

A Hachette UK Company

www.orionbooks.co.uk