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240 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780812219173
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 01 May 2005
Description
Marital status was a fundamental legal and cultural feature of women's identity in the eighteenth century. Free women who were not married could own property and make wills, contracts, and court appearances, rights that the law of coverture preven...
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240 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780812219173
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 01 May 2005
Description
Marital status was a fundamental legal and cultural feature of women's identity in the eighteenth century. Free women who were not married could own property and make wills, contracts, and court appearances, rights that the law of coverture preven...