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To learn what workers were actually doing on the shop floor, read Geraldine Sheridan's book Louder than Words. With her vast, precise knowledge of eighteenth-century trades, the author demonstrates how integral women's work was to the productive process. -- Daryl M. Hafter author of Women at Work in Preindustrial France

The engravings from the Encyclopedie and those less well-known, commissioned by the Academie Royale des Sciences, are a treasure trove . . . and have long awaited the scholar to do them justice. They have now found her. -- Clare Crowston University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign To learn what workers were actually doing on the shop floor, read Geraldine Sheridan's book Louder than Words. With her vast, precise knowledge of eighteenth-century trades, the author demonstrates how integral women's work was to the productive process. -- Daryl M. Hafter author of Women at Work in Preindustrial France

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Geraldine Sheridan is professor of French at the University of Limerick. She has published widely on aspects of French cultural history, including the role of women in the book trades and the circulation of subversive ideas in Europe. Her previous books include Nicolas Lenglet Dufresnoy and the Literary Underworld of the Ancien Regime and (edited with Graham Gargett) Ireland and the French Enlightenment, 1700 1800.

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