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Women and the Land examines the pre-history of gendered property relations in England, focusing on the four-hundred-year period between roughly 1500 and 1900. More specifically, the book is about how gender shaped opportunities for and experiences of owning property, particularly for women. The focus is especially on land, residential buildings and commercial property, but livestock, common and personal property also feature. This project is driven by an explicitly feminist agenda: the contributors directly challenge the idea that the existence of patriarchal property relations - including the doctrine of coverture and gendered inheritance practices - meant that property was concentrated in exclusively male hands. Here a very different story is told: of significant levels of female landownership and how women's desire to own property and manage its profits led to emotional attachments to land and a willingness and determination to fight for the right to legal title. Altogether, the chapters in this volume offer new histories of land and property which hold women's lives as their centre. Presenting the very latest qualitative and quantitative research on women's landownership, the book will be of interest to those working in social, economic and cultural history, historical and cultural geography, women's studies, gender studies and landscape studies.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction: Women, Property and Land β’ Briony McDonagh, Amanda L. Capern, Jennifer Aston and Hannah Worthen
1. Women, Work and Land: The Spatial Dynamics of Gender Relations in Early Modern England 1550β1750 β’ Amanda Flather
2. Spinsters with Land in Early Modern England: Inheritance, Possession and Use β’ Judith Spicksley
3. Becoming Anne Clifford β’ Jessica L. Malay
4. The Heiress Reconsidered: Contexts for Understanding the Abduction of Arabella Alleyn β’ Amanda L. Capern
5. From Magnificent Houses to Disagreeable Country: Lady Sophia Newdigateβs Tour of Southern England and Derbyshire, 1748 β’ Jon Stobart
6. On Being βfully and completely mistress of the whole businessβ: Gender, Land and Estate Accounting in Georgian England β’ Briony McDonagh
7. Negotiating Men: Elizabeth Montagu, βCapabilityβ Brown and the Construction of Pastoral β’ Stephen Bending
8. Womenβs Involvement in Property in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries β’ Joan K. F. Heggie
9. Invisible Women: Small-scale Landed Proprietors in Nineteenth-century England β’ Janet Casson
10. More than Just a Caretaker: Womenβs Role in the Intergenerational Transfer of Real and Personal Property in Nineteenth-century Urban England, 1840β1900 β’ Jennifer Aston
Afterword β’ Amy Louise Erickson
Select Bibliography
Index
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