Amy Froide

UMBC, History, Faculty Member

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I am a historian of early modern British history and women's history.
Phone: 4104552033
Address: UMBC
History Department
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250

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Papers by Amy Froide

Alexander Wakelam. Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England. An Economic History of Debtors’ Prisons. [Perspectives in Economic and Social History, Vol. 61.] Routledge, London [etc.] 2021. xi, 253 pp. £97.50. (Paper, E-book: £29.24.)

International review of social history, Mar 20, 2024

Laura Gowing, Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth Century London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pages ix + 284 + figures 24 + tables 9, £29.99 hardback

Continuity and Change

The Long Shadow of the South Sea Bubble: Memory, Financial Crisis, and the Charitable Corporation Scandal of 1732

Boom, Bust, and Beyond, 2019

Marriage, Separation & Divorce in England, 1500–1700 by K. J. Kesselring and Tim Stretton

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

The Jacobite Duchess: Frances Jennings, Duchess of Tyrconnell, c.1649–1731. Frances Nolan. Irish Historical Monographs. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. xx + 370 pp. $90

Renaissance Quarterly

The history behind Bridgerton

Journal of Popular Television, The

While the Bridgerton () series does not present itself as historically accurate, shows set in the... more While the Bridgerton () series does not present itself as historically accurate, shows set in the past always lead to historical questions. In this article I argue for using fictional historical series as a tool in the classroom and to engage with the public. Bridgerton is a useful entrée into topics it emphasizes, such as the British aristocracy, fashion and design, courtship and marriage and the British colony of India, as well as those that it ignores: male monarchy, patriarchy, singleness and Atlantic slavery.

2. The Religious Lives of Singlewomen in the Anglo-Atlantic World: Quaker Missionaries, Protestant Nuns, and Covert Catholics

Women, Religion & the Atlantic World, 1600-1800

The Jacobite Duchess: Frances Jennings, Duchess of Tyrconnell, c.1649–1731. Frances Nolan. Irish Historical Monographs. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. xx + 370 pp. $90

Renaissance Quarterly, 2023

The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

German History, 2014

Challenging Women’s Agency and Activism in Early Modernity

Early Modern Women-an Interdisciplinary Journal, Mar 1, 2023

This introduction summarizes and notes connections among the essays in this collection, which con... more This introduction summarizes and notes connections among the essays in this collection, which consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women's actions and activism. The volume includes thirteen essays by scholars from many disciplines, which analyze people, texts, objects, and images from many different parts of Europe, as well as things and people that crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific. The essays address a capacious set of questions about how women, from their teenage years through older adulthood, asserted agency through social practices, speech acts, legal disputes, writing, viewing and exchanging images, travel, and community building.

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Jennifer Aston and Catherine Bishop, eds. Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Global Perspective. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. 504. $132.99 (cloth)

Journal of British Studies, Oct 1, 2022

Marriage, Separation & Divorce in England, 1500–1700 by K. J. Kesselring and Tim Stretton

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2023

David Cressy, Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997

Medieval feminist newsletter, Sep 1, 1998

If you are a medievalist reading the title of the book reviewed here you might be tempted to pass... more If you are a medievalist reading the title of the book reviewed here you might be tempted to pass on to a review of a volume more squarely situated in the time period that you study, but I would urge you not to do so. This book will be of interest to medievalists, since one of the strengths of Cressy's work is his tracing of the changes effected on life-cycle rituals by the transition from late medieval Catholicism to early modern Protestantism. The author's aim is to provide us with a "social, cultural, and religious history of the ceremonies associated with birth" marriage, and death" in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England. He is particularly interested in illuminating how life-cycle rituals were changed by the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the seventeenth-century English Revolution, and the subsequent Restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Although the author is openly cautious of applying anthropological and what he terms "social-science" theory to the study of ritual, he attempts to understand the meaning of these rituals for early modern peoples. He looks at how ceremonies associated with the life-cycle brought families, communities, and parishes together, while simultaneously revealing frictions and dissenting opinions. Cressy's thorough (the book is 482 pages) and well-researched discussion of lifecycle rituals in early modern England is divided into three sections: the first focuses on birth, baptism, and churching, the second on courtship and marriage, and the third on death and burial. The initial four chapters provide a discussion of pre-modern ideas about pregnancy and childbirth, as well as an overview of the birthing process and the mother's experience of the first few weeks following childbirth. While most historians of women in pre-modern Europe will be familiar with the childbirth customs detailed here, Cressy provides a nice summary of or introduction to the field.

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Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2007

Laura Gowing, Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth Century London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pages ix + 284 + figures 24 + tables 9, £29.99 hardback

Continuity and Change, Aug 1, 2022

The Long Shadow of the South Sea Bubble: Memory, Financial Crisis, and the Charitable Corporation Scandal of 1732

De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 2, 2019

The history behind Bridgerton

Journal of popular television, Apr 12, 2023

Making a Living, Making a Difference: Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society ed. by Maria Ågren

Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, Dec 1, 2018

Europe with renewed attention to the importance of female lineage. By reassessing traditional the... more

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2. The Religious Lives of Singlewomen in the Anglo-Atlantic World: Quaker Missionaries, Protestant Nuns, and Covert Catholics

University of Toronto Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2009

Silent Partners: Women as Public Investors during Britain's Financial Revolution, 1690-1750

OUP Catalogue, 2016

's book is an excellent addition to the work on early modern women done by researchers such as Am... more 's book is an excellent addition to the work on early modern women done by researchers such as Amy Louise Erickson. In fact, it was Amy Erickson who first drew my attention to this book even before I was asked to review it. It does not disappoint. Amy Erickson, Ann Carlos, Larry Neal, Anne Murphy and others have shown that women were a part of the Financial Revolution. Some were extremely active in the stock markets as brokers or investors. Women could manage financial portfolios and be trusted advisors to others. Froide uses a wider set of sources than is usual, in order to create a fuller picture of female investment in public companies. This book is likely to become a key text and would be a good addition to reading lists about women's history and/or the Financial Revolution.

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International review of social history, Mar 20, 2024