Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
William Gouge
Standard Name: Gouge, William
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William Gouge
in Of Domesticall Duties voiced the prevailing view that women's lives had public as well as domestic aspects: for them, he wrote, a conscionable performance of household duties was a publike worke.
Crawford, Patricia. “Public Duty, Conscience, and Women in Early Modern England”. Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by John Morrill et al., Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 57-76.