The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives by Sarah Chapone

ISBN-13: 9780367593001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 128 str.

Susan Paterson Glover

Opis

Susan Paterson Glover here presents a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. The text is bookended by an extended, original introduction, and a set of appendices providing supplemental historical documents relating to Chapone's life and work.

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Contents

　

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Texts

A Note on the Spelling of Chapone

Facsimile title-page

Introduction

The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives. With an Explanation of the Original Curse of Subjection passed upon the Woman. In an Humble Address to the Legislature.

Appendix One: Responses from the Weekly Miscellany (1736, 1737)

Appendix Two: Excerpts from The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights (1632), Baron and Feme: A Treatise of the Common Law. Concerning Husbands and Wives (1700), and The Treatise of Feme Coverts; or, The Lady’s Law (1732)

Appendix Three: Excerpts from the Sarah Chapone-Samuel Richardson correspondence

Appendix Four: Remarks on Mrs. Muilman’s Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield (1750) [by Sarah Chapone]

Bibliography

O autorze

Susan Paterson Glover is Associate Professor of English at Laurentian University, Canada.