Amy Louise Erickson

Women and Property (eBook, ePUB)

In Early Modern England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134785575
• Artikelnr.: 47888618

Autorenporträt

Amy Louise Erickson

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Background
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Law, society and documents
Part 2 Maids
Chapter 3 Upbringing
Chapter 4 Inheritance
Chapter 5 Portions and marriage
Part 3 Wives
Chapter 6 The nature of marriage settlements
Chapter 7 Marriage settlements in the Court of Chancery
Chapter 8 Marriage settlements in probate documents
Part 4 Widows
Chapter 9 Widows of men who made wills
Chapter 10 Widows of men who did not make wills
Chapter 11 How lone women lived
Chapter 12 Lone women's wills