Favoured or oppressed? Married women, property and ‘coverture’ in England, 1660–1800
In the eighteenth century, the condition of English wives under ‘coverture’ was both defended as one of privilege and attacked as worse than slavery. This article suggests that married women were not in reality confined within coverture’s regulations on credit and property ownership. Their economic...
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Cambridge University Press
2002
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