A Favourite of the Laws
Ruth Bernard Yeazell, 13 June 1991
Married Women’s Separate Property in England, 1660-1833
by Susan Staves.
Harvard, 290 pp., £27.95, April 1990,0 674 55088 9 Show More
by Susan Staves.
Harvard, 290 pp., £27.95, April 1990,
The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship and the Life of the Mind in 18th-century England
by Sylvia Harcstark Myers.
Oxford, 342 pp., £35, August 1990,0 19 811767 1 Show More
by Sylvia Harcstark Myers.
Oxford, 342 pp., £35, August 1990,
Portrait of a Friendship: Drawn from New Letters of James Russell Lowell to Sybella Lady Lyttleton 1881-1891
by Alethea Hayter.
Michael Russell, 267 pp., £16.95, September 1990,0 85955 167 9 Show More
by Alethea Hayter.
Michael Russell, 267 pp., £16.95, September 1990,
Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America
by Helena Wall.
Harvard, 243 pp., £23.95, August 1990,0 674 29958 2 Show More
by Helena Wall.
Harvard, 243 pp., £23.95, August 1990,
“... be brought up in the Patriot din of Liberty and property and to be allow’d neither?’ Elizabeth Robinson inquired as a young woman. As Mrs Montagu, she would eventually acquire a considerable measure of both – but only after the death of the man by whose name she has since been known to posterity. None of the women Syliva Myers includes in the first ... ”