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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (327 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442683600
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern EnglandDDC classification:
  • 820.9/3522
LOC classification:
  • KD811.W64
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 -- 2 Putting Women in Their Place: Female Litigants at Whitehaven, 1660-1760 -- 3 Women's Property, Popular Cultures, and the Consistory Court of London in the Eighteenth Century -- 4 The Whore's Estate: Sally Salisbury, Prostitution, and Property in Eighteenth-Century London -- Part Two: Women, Social Reproduction, and Patrilineal Inheritance -- 5 Primogeniture, Patrilineage, and the Displacement of Women -- 6 Isabella's Rule: Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure -- 7 Marriage, Identity, and the Pursuit of Property in Seventeenth-Century England: The Cases of Anne Clifford and Elizabeth Wiseman -- 8 Cordelia's Estate: Women and the Law of Property from Shakespeare to Nahum Tate -- 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 -- 10 Women's Wills in Early Modern England -- 11 Spiritual Property: The English Benedictine Nuns of Cambrai and the Dispute over the Baker Manuscripts -- 12 The Titular Claims of Female Surnames in Eighteenth-Century Fiction -- 13 Early Modern (Aristocratic) Women and Textual Property -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern Englandturns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period.
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Intro -- 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 -- 2 Putting Women in Their Place: Female Litigants at Whitehaven, 1660-1760 -- 3 Women's Property, Popular Cultures, and the Consistory Court of London in the Eighteenth Century -- 4 The Whore's Estate: Sally Salisbury, Prostitution, and Property in Eighteenth-Century London -- Part Two: Women, Social Reproduction, and Patrilineal Inheritance -- 5 Primogeniture, Patrilineage, and the Displacement of Women -- 6 Isabella's Rule: Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure -- 7 Marriage, Identity, and the Pursuit of Property in Seventeenth-Century England: The Cases of Anne Clifford and Elizabeth Wiseman -- 8 Cordelia's Estate: Women and the Law of Property from Shakespeare to Nahum Tate -- 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 -- 10 Women's Wills in Early Modern England -- 11 Spiritual Property: The English Benedictine Nuns of Cambrai and the Dispute over the Baker Manuscripts -- 12 The Titular Claims of Female Surnames in Eighteenth-Century Fiction -- 13 Early Modern (Aristocratic) Women and Textual Property -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern Englandturns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period.

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