A01=Linda Sturtz
Author_Linda Sturtz
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Category=NHTB
Chicken Book
Colonial Virginia
county
County Court
court
covert
Dower Rights
early American law
economic roles women
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female agency colonial era
feme
Feme Covert
Feme Sole
Feme Sole Trader
gender legal history
Ghost Family
inheritance practices
legal status wives
Married Women
Moll Flanders
North Carolinians
Ordinary License
prince
Private Examination
propertied
Remarrying Widows
Robert's Father
Separate Estate
sole
Tidewater
Tidewater Counties
Tidewater Region
Tidewater Virginia
virginia
Virginia Women
women
women's legal autonomy in early America
Women's Property
Women's Property Rights
Women’s Property Rights
york
York County
York County Court
Product details
- ISBN 9780415928823
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is an engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater, VA during the 17th & 18th centuries. It examines the social restrictions on women's behaviour and speech, opportunities and difficulties these women encountered in the legal system, the economic and discretionary authority they enjoyed, the roles they played in the family business,their roles in the later, trans-Atlantic trading framework, and the imperial context within which these colonial women lived, making this a welcome addition to both colonial and women's history.
Linda Strutz is an Associate Professor of History at Beloit College in Wisconsin.
