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In <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">B<\/jats:styled-content>rathwaite's mind, the ideal <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">E<\/jats:styled-content>nglish gentlewoman was not only chaste, modest and honourable but also an avid reader. In fact, <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">B<\/jats:styled-content>rathwaite specifically recommends <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">E<\/jats:styled-content>nglish gentlewomen to first peruse herbals and then to deepen their medical knowledge via conference. Centred on the manuscript notebooks of two late seventeenth\u2010century women, <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">M<\/jats:styled-content>argaret <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">B<\/jats:styled-content>oscawen (d. 1688) and <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">E<\/jats:styled-content>lizabeth <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">F<\/jats:styled-content>reke (1642\u20131714), this article explores women and \u2018medical reading\u2019 in early modern England. It first demonstrates that whilst both women consulted herbals by contemporary authors such as <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">J<\/jats:styled-content>ohn <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">G<\/jats:styled-content>erard and <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">N<\/jats:styled-content>icholas <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">C<\/jats:styled-content>ulpeper, their modes of reading could not be more different. Where <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">F<\/jats:styled-content>reke ruminated, digested and abstracted from <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">G<\/jats:styled-content>erard's large tome, <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">B<\/jats:styled-content>oscawen made practical lists from <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">C<\/jats:styled-content>ulpeper's <jats:italic>The <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">E<\/jats:styled-content>nglish Physitian<\/jats:italic>. Secondly, the article shows that both supplemented their herbal reading with a range of other vernacular medical texts including printed medical recipe books, contemporary pharmacopoeia and surgical handbooks. Early modern <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">E<\/jats:styled-content>nglish women's medical reading, <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">I<\/jats:styled-content> argue, was nuanced, sophisticated and diverse. 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