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Women, property, and the letters of the law in early modern England

Title
Women, property, and the letters of the law in early modern England [electronic resource] / edited by Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson, A.R. Buck.
Publication
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948-
  • Buck, A. R.
  • Wright, Nancy E.
Description
1 online resource (x, 316 p.)
Uniform Title
Women, property, and the letters of the law in early modern England (Online)
Subject
  • English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • Women and literature > England > History > 16th century
  • Women and literature > England > History > 17th century
  • Women and literature > England > History > 18th century
  • Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > History. > England
  • Women > England > History > Modern period, 1600-
  • Law and literature > History > 16th century
  • Law and literature > History > 17th century
  • Law and literature > History > 18th century
  • Right of property > England > History
  • Property in literature
  • Law in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Introduction / Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson -- Temporal gestation, legal contracts, and the promissory economies of The winter's tale / 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
LCCN
2004558564
OCLC
ssj0000313515
Title
Women, property, and the letters of the law in early modern England [electronic resource] / edited by Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson, A.R. Buck.
Imprint
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948-
Buck, A. R.
Wright, Nancy E.
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