5. Primogeniture, Patrilineage, and the Displacement of Women

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Credit, Commerce, and Women's Property Relationships
6. 1. Temporal Gestation, Legal Contracts, and the Promissory Economies of The Winter's Tale 25
7. 2. Putting Women in Their Place: Female Litigants at Whitehaven, 1660-1760 50
8. 3. Women's Property, Popular Cultures, and the Consistory Court of London in the Eighteenth Century 66
9. 4. The Whore's Estate: Sally Salisbury, Prostitution, and Property in Eighteenth-Century London 95
10. Part Two: Women, Social Reproduction, and Patrilineal Inheritance
11. 5. Primogeniture, Patrilineage, and the Displacement of Women 121
12. 6. Isabella's Rule: Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure 137
13. 7. Marriage, Identity, and the Pursuit of Property in Seventeenth-Century England: The Cases of Anne Clifford and Elizabeth Wiseman 162
14. 8. Cordelia's Estate: Women and the Law of Property from Shakespeare to Nahum Tate 183
15. Part Three: Women's Authorship and Ownership: Matrices for Emergent Ideas of Intellectual Property
16. 9. Writing Home: Hannah Wolley, the Oxinden Letters, and Household Epistolary Practice 201
17. 10. Women's Wills in Early Modern England 219
18. 11. Spiritual Property: The English Benedictine Nuns of Cambrai and the Dispute over the Baker Manuscripts 237
19. 12. The Titular Claims of Female Surnames in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 256
20. 13. Early Modern (Aristocratic) Women and Textual Property 281
21. Afterword 296
22. Contributors 305
23. Index 309