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Title:

Women, property, and the letters of the law in early modern England / edited by Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson, A.R. Buck.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

x, 316 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--History.--England--History.
Right of property--England--History.
Women--England--History--Modern period, 1600-
Women--History--England--History--Sources.
Right of property--England--History--Sources.
Women--England--History--Modern period, 1600---Sources.
Femmes--Histoire.--Angleterre--Histoire.
Droit de propriété--Angleterre--Histoire.
Femmes--Histoire--Histoire--1600-
Femmes--Histoire--Angleterre--Histoire--Sources.
Droit de propriété--Angleterre--Histoire--Sources.
Femmes--Angleterre--Histoire--1600---Sources.

Other Authors:

Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948-
Buck, A. R.
Wright, Nancy E.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Afterword / Margreta de Grazia Early modern (aristocratic) women and textual property / Patricia Parker -- Putting women in their place : female litigants at Whitehaven, 1660-1760 / Christine Churches -- Women's property, popular cultures, and the consistory court of London in the eighteenth century / David Lemmings -- The whore's estate : Sally Salisbury, prostitution, and property in eighteenth-century London / Laura J. Rosenthal -- Primogeniture, patrilineage, and the displacement of women / Mary Murray -- Isabella's rule : singlewomen and the properties of poverty in Measure for measure / Natasha Korda -- Marriage, identity, and the pursuit of property in seventeenth-century England : the cases of Anne Clifford and Elizabeth Wiseman / Mary Chan, Nancy E. Wright -- Cordelia's estate : women and the law of property from Shakespeare to Nahum Tate / A.R. Buck -- Writing home : Hannah Wolley, the Oxinden letters, and household epistolary practice / Jennifer Summit -- Women's wills in early modern England / Lloyd Davis -- Spiritual property : the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and the dispute over the Baker manuscripts / Claire Walker -- The titular claims of female surnames in eighteenth-century fiction / Eleanor F. Shevlin -- Early modern (aristocratic) women and textual property / Paul Salzman -- Afterword / Margreta de Grazia

ISBN:

9780802087577 (bound) :
0802087574 (bound) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53963575

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)