Book chapter
A Letter Is a Paper House: Home, Family, and Natural Knowledge
Working with Paper Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge, p.145
University of Pittsburgh Press
06/18/2019
Abstract
When the naturalist and cleric John Ray died in his home in Black Notley, Essex, in January 1705, his widow, Margaret Ray, would have washed his body and dressed it in a woolen shift, perhaps with a bit of black embroidery at cuff and collar. She tied the shift at the feet and then wrapped the corpse in a woolen winding sheet (not linen, as required by a parliamentary statute that bolstered the English woolen industry and reserved linen for papermaking).¹ John’s body, by his own request, was nailed into a plain wooden coffin so that his corpse could not
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- Title: Subtitle
- A Letter Is a Paper House: Home, Family, and Natural Knowledge
- Creators
- Elizabeth Yale
- Contributors
- Carla Bittel (Editor)Elaine Leong (Editor)Christine von Oertzen (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Working with Paper Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge, p.145
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/18/2019
- Academic Unit
- History
- Record Identifier
- 9984278123402771
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