The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture

‘This engaging, sophisticated book will find an audience among all Shakespeare lovers who wonder where the Bard’s Moors, Turks, and Tatars came from.’

M.Cooke, Choice Magazine vol 55:02:2017

"Bernadette Andrea has crafted an extremely impressive book that examines in a highly sophisticated manner the history of Islamic girls and women in Britain. Andrea’s research is remarkable and this book is of great importance to the developing scholarship on early modern England’s connections with the rest of the world."

Carole Levin, Willa Cather Professor of History, University of Nebraska

"The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture is an extraordinarily well-researched book that offers a substantive and persuasive rereading of the ways in which women from Central Asia and North Africa figured in discourses of international trade, imperial longing, and Britain’s national self-fashioning. It serves as a model of how to recover and interpret the traces of marginalized women. Andrea’s work is extremely impressive and makes a significant contribution to scholarship on race, gender, and empire in the early modern era.

Robert Markley, W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign