Introduction

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 3-22

  Wright, Nancy E ^a   Ferguson, Margaret ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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