Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England /

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England / / Andrew Buck, Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson.

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Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England examines the competing narratives of property told by and about women in the early modern period. Through letters, legal treatises, case law, wills, and works of literature, the contributors explore women's complex roles as sub...

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Buck, Andrew,
Ferguson, Margaret W.,
Wright, Nancy E.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Credit, Commerce, and Women's Property Relationships
  • 1. Temporal Gestation, Legal Contracts, and the Promissory Economies of The Winter's Tale / Parker, Patricia
  • 2. Putting Women in Their Place: Female Litigants at Whitehaven, 1660-1760 / Churches, Christine
  • 3. Women's Property, Popular Cultures, and the Consistory Court of London in the Eighteenth Century / Lemmings, David
  • 4. The Whore's Estate: Sally Salisbury, Prostitution, and Property in Eighteenth-Century London / Rosenthal, Laura J.
  • Part Two: Women, Social Reproduction, and Patrilineal Inheritance
  • 5. Primogeniture, Patrilineage, and the Displacement of Women / Murray, Mary
  • 6. Isabella's Rule: Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure / Korda, Natasha
  • 7. Marriage, Identity, and the Pursuit of Property in Seventeenth-Century England: The Cases of Anne Clifford and Elizabeth Wiseman / Chan, Mary / Wright, Nancy E.
  • 8. Cordelia's Estate: Women and the Law of Property from Shakespeare to Nahum Tate / Buck, A.R.
  • Part Three: Women's Authorship and Ownership: Matrices for Emergent Ideas of Intellectual Property
  • 9. Writing Home: Hannah Wolley, the Oxinden Letters, and Household Epistolary Practice / Summit, Jennifer
  • 10. Women's Wills in Early Modern England / Davis, Lloyd
  • 11. Spiritual Property: The English Benedictine Nuns of Cambrai and the Dispute over the Baker Manuscripts / Walker, Claire
  • 12. The Titular Claims of Female Surnames in Eighteenth-Century Fiction / Shevlin, Eleanor F.
  • 13. Early Modern (Aristocratic) Women and Textual Property / Salzman, Paul
  • Afterword / Grazia, Margreta De
  • Contributors
  • Index

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