Women and the Land, 1500-1900 (Web PDF) von Amanda L. Capern

Women and the Land examines English women's legal rights to land and the reality and consequences of their land ownership over four centuries.

Introduction: Women, Property and Land - Briony McDonagh and Amanda L. Capern and Jennifer Aston
Women, Work and Land: The Spatial Dynamics of Gender Relations in Early Modern England 1550-1750 - Amanda J. Flather
Spinsters with Land in Early Modern England: Inheritance, Possession and Use - Judith Spicksley
Becoming Anne Clifford - Judith L. Malay
The Heiress Reconsidered: Contexts for Understanding the Abduction of Arabella Alleyn - Amanda L. Capern
From Magnificent Houses to Disagreeable Country: Lady Sophia Newdigate's Tour of Southern England and Derbyshire, 1748 - Jon Stobart
On Being 'fully and completely mistress of the whole business': Gender, Land and Estate Accounting in Georgian England - Briony McDonagh
Negotiating Men: Elizabeth Montagu, 'Capability' Brown, and the Construction of Pastoral - Stephen Bending
Women's Involvement in Property in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Joan Heggie
Invisible Women: Small-scale Landed Proprietors in Nineteenth Century England - Janet Casson
More than just a Caretaker: Women's Role in the Intergenerational Transfer of Real and Personal Property in Nineteenth-Century Urban England, 1840-1900 - Jennifer Aston
Afterword - Amy Erickson
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