Women, property, and the letters of the law in early modern England, edited by Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson, A.R. Buck

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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
Introduction
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
Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson
Afterword
Margreta de Grazia
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

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