Narveson, Kate. <br/><br/>
Bible readers and lay writers in early modern England :  gender and self-definition in an emergent writing culture / 
Kate Narveson. 
 - London :  New York :  Routledge,  2016. 
 - viii, 235 p. :  24 cm. 
 - Material readings in early modern culture .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [217] 232) and index. 
<br/><br/>Reading the Bible: clerical prescriptions and lay reading practices -- The emergence of lay composition -- Application to the self : reading and the restructuring of identity -- Recording identity: scripturalist devotion among ordinary layfolk -- Discursive horizons and the question of gender -- The devotional page and the schoolroom of print -- Grace Mildmay's meditations: love letters from God and their Scriptural authorization. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138246638 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012003112 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible--Devotional use.<br/>Bible--Reading--England.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Spiritual journals--Authorship.<br/>Christian literature, English--History and criticism.<br/>Gender identity--England.<br/>Identification (Religion)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>England--Church history--16th century.<br/>England--Church history--17th century.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>274.206  / NAR