Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Women, Property and Land
- 1 Women, Work and Land: The Spatial Dynamics of Gender Relations in Early Modern England 1550–1750
- 2 Spinsters with Land in Early Modern England: Inheritance, Possession and Use
- 3 Becoming Anne Clifford
- 4 The Heiress Reconsidered: Contexts for Understanding the Abduction of Arabella Alleyn
- 5 From Magnificent Houses to Disagreeable Country: Lady Sophia Newdigate's Tour of Southern England and Derbyshire, 1748
- 6 On Being ‘fully and completely mistress of the whole business’: Gender, Land and Estate Accounting in Georgian England
- 7 Negotiating Men: Elizabeth Montagu, ‘Capability’ Brown and the Construction of Pastoral
- 8 Women's Involvement in Property in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 9 Invisible Women: Small-scale Landed Proprietors in Nineteenth-century England
- 10 More than Just a Caretaker: Women's Role in the Intergenerational Transfer of Real and Personal Property in Nineteenth-century Urban England, 1840–1900
- Afterword
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- PEOPLE, MARKETS, GOODS: ECONOMIES AND SOCIETIES IN HISTORY
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2020
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Women, Property and Land
- 1 Women, Work and Land: The Spatial Dynamics of Gender Relations in Early Modern England 1550–1750
- 2 Spinsters with Land in Early Modern England: Inheritance, Possession and Use
- 3 Becoming Anne Clifford
- 4 The Heiress Reconsidered: Contexts for Understanding the Abduction of Arabella Alleyn
- 5 From Magnificent Houses to Disagreeable Country: Lady Sophia Newdigate's Tour of Southern England and Derbyshire, 1748
- 6 On Being ‘fully and completely mistress of the whole business’: Gender, Land and Estate Accounting in Georgian England
- 7 Negotiating Men: Elizabeth Montagu, ‘Capability’ Brown and the Construction of Pastoral
- 8 Women's Involvement in Property in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 9 Invisible Women: Small-scale Landed Proprietors in Nineteenth-century England
- 10 More than Just a Caretaker: Women's Role in the Intergenerational Transfer of Real and Personal Property in Nineteenth-century Urban England, 1840–1900
- Afterword
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- PEOPLE, MARKETS, GOODS: ECONOMIES AND SOCIETIES IN HISTORY
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- Women and the Land, 1500–1900 , pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019