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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
1 Norma Basch, In the Eyes of the Law: Women, Marriage and Property in Nineteenth-Century New York (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1982); Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town 1784–1860 (New York: w. W. Norton, 1984); Lee Holcombe, Wives and Property: Reform of the Married Women's Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983) (“Holcombe, Wives and Property”); Peggy A. Rabkin, Fathers to Daughters: The Legal Foundations of Female Emancipation (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980); Mary R. Beard, Woman as Force in History (New York: Collier, 1946; 3d printing 1973); and Richard H. Chused, Married Women's Property Law 1800–1850, 71 Georgetown L.J. 1359 (1983).Google Scholar
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