To do the right thing: Gender, wealth, inheritance and the London middle class

Women and Their Money 1700-1950: Essays on Women and Finance

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 133-150

  Green, David R ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203885994     Document Type: Chapter

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