Women in the Ledger Stones: New Histories at Newcastle Cathedral

这个博士旨在重新建立一个中产阶级妇女在十七和十八世纪的声音，使用纽卡斯尔大教堂的分类账石头作为一个起点，进入他们的生活更深入的调查。与男性相比，大教堂的许多分类石上关于女性的信息很少，他们经常被简单地称为“他的妻子”，有时甚至没有死亡日期。本论文将通过对这些被命名为“分类石”的女性的调查，来展示她们的生活是充满活力和独特的，她们是纽卡斯尔生活中的关键人物。

This PhD seeks to re-establish the voices of a middling class of woman in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, using Newcastle Cathedral's ledger stones as a starting point into a deeper investigation of their lives. Many of the ledger stones at the Cathedral have very little information on the women compared to their male counterparts, where they are often referred to simply as "his wife", sometimes without even a date of death. This thesis would investigate the women named in the ledger stones to show the lives they lived were vibrant and unique, and that they were key figures in Newcastle life.