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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.
Publication Info Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2004.


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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.
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ISBN 9781442683600 (electronic bk.)
1442683600 (electronic bk.)
1281994316
9781281994318
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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. -- England -- History.
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.
Alt author Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948- editor.
Buck, A. R., editor.
Wright, Nancy E., editor.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 316 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript Bibliography
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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781442683600 (electronic bk.)
1442683600 (electronic bk.)
1281994316
9781281994318
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. -- England -- History.
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.
Alt author Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948- editor.
Buck, A. R., editor.
Wright, Nancy E., editor.

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. -- England -- History.
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.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 316 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript Bibliography
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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948- editor.
Buck, A. R., editor.
Wright, Nancy E., editor.
ISBN 9781442683600 (electronic bk.)
1442683600 (electronic bk.)
1281994316
9781281994318
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