Displaced Heritage

Ian Convery, Gerard Corsane, Peter Davis

Introduction: Women, Property and Land Women, Work and Land: The Spatial Dynamics of Gender Relations in Early Modern England 1550-1750 Spinsters with Land in Early Modern England: Inheritance, Possession and Use Becoming Anne Clifford The Heiress Reconsidered: Contexts for Understanding the Abduction of Arabella Alleyn From Magnificent Houses to Disagreeable Country: Lady Sophia Newdigate's Tour of Southern England and Derbyshire, 1748 On Being 'fully and completely mistress of the whole business': Gender, Land and Estate Accounting in Georgian England Negotiating Men: Elizabeth Montagu, 'Capability' Brown, and the Construction of Pastoral Women's Involvement in Property in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Invisible Women: Small-scale Landed Proprietors in Nineteenth Century England More than just a Caretaker: Women's Role in the Intergenerational Transfer of Real and Personal Property in Nineteenth-Century Urban England, 1840-1900 Afterword Select Bibliography