Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction: Women, Property and Land 1
6. 1 Women, Work and Land: The Spatial Dynamics of Gender Relations in Early Modern England 1550–1750 29
7. 2 Spinsters with Land in Early Modern England: Inheritance, Possession and Use 51
8. 3 Becoming Anne Clifford 77
9. 4 The Heiress Reconsidered: Contexts for Understanding the Abduction of Arabella Alleyn 100
10. 5 From Magnificent Houses to Disagreeable Country: Lady Sophia Newdigate’s Tour of Southern England and Derbyshire, 1748 127
11. 6 On Being ‘fully and completely mistress of the whole business’: Gender, Land and Estate Accounting in Georgian England 149
12. 7 Negotiating Men: Elizabeth Montagu, ‘Capability’ Brown, and the Construction of Pastoral 176
13. 8 Women’s Involvement in Property in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 201
14. 9 Invisible Women: Small-scale Landed Proprietors in Nineteenth-century England 226
15. 10 More than Just a Caretaker: Women’s Role in the Intergenerational Transfer of Real and Personal Property in Nineteenthcentury Urban England, 1840–1900 244
16. Afterword 267
17. Select Bibliography 277
18. Index 283