North Country Wills


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A Calendar of Wills and Administrations Relating to the County of Dorset, Proved in the Consistory Court (Dorsetshire Division) of the Late Diocese of Bristol, 1681-1792, and in the Archdeaconry Court of Dorset, 1568-1792, and in the Several Peculiars, 1660-1799, All Now Preserved at the Probate Registry, Blandford


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Women and Property


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This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.