Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART ONE: COSMETICS -- 'The Beautifying Part of Physic': Women's Cosmetic Practices in Early Modern England -- 'Soveraigne Receipts,' Fair Beauty, and Race in Stuart England -- PART TWO: CLOTHES -- The Greatness in Good Clothes: Fashioning Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Spencer's Account Book -- What Not to Wear: Children's Clothes and the Maternal Advice of Elizabeth Jocelin and Brilliana, Lady Harley -- PART THREE: HAIR -- The Culture of the Head: Hair in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Cavendish's 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity' -- An 'absolute mistress of her self': Anne Clifford and the Luxury of Hair -- Conclusion -- Index.