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Amy Louise Erickson
`An impressive study.' - Germaine Greer. Amy Erickson combines legal, social and women's history in an imaginative and methodically interesting way to chart the limits and the contradictions of women as property owners.
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;