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Gervase Markham
d. 1637
An energetic English writer of the late Elizabethan and early Stuart years, he turned his hand to poetry, fiction, horsemanship, household management, and practical books on farming. His works helped shape how early modern readers learned about country life and everyday skills.
2 Audiobooks
The English Husbandman
by Gervase Markham
The English Husbandman (The Second Booke)
by Gervase Markham
About the author
Gervase Markham (c. 1568–1637) was an English author remembered for an unusually wide range of writing. He produced poems, prose romances, and practical manuals, and became especially well known for books on agriculture, country living, and the care and training of horses.
His work reflects a period when readers wanted books that were useful as well as entertaining. Markham wrote for that audience with clear, practical guidance, and his manuals on husbandry and household management remained influential enough to be reprinted and circulated widely.
Today he is often noted as one of the most prolific English writers of his time. For listeners interested in early modern England, his books offer a lively window into the skills, routines, and ambitions of everyday life in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.