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• Title:The hardships of the English laws in relation to wives / by Sarah Chapone ; edited by Susan Paterson Glover.
  
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• Author/Creator:Chapone, Sarah Kirkham, 1699-1764.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Glover, Susan, 1950-
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• Published/Created:London : New York : Routledge, 2018.
  

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  • Call Number: KD758
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Husband and wife--England--Early works to 1800.
  Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--England--Early works to 1800.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  
• Description:1 online resource
  
• Series:Early modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750. Contemporary editions.
  
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• Summary:"Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, 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. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an account of Chapone's life; a discussion of the influence of Mary Astell's work on Chapone's thought and work; and a review of the legal status of women in England's eighteenth century, with particular attention to marriage and the doctrine of coverture and the relations of women, law, and property. It concludes by acknowledging the importance of this text to any consideration of the evolution of a discourse of "rights" for women in the Anglo-American legal tradition, and its contribution to a movement for property rights and women's equality whose genesis is generally located in the legislative changes of the nineteenth century. The edition contains valuable appendices including, among other writings, excerpts from Chapone's correspondence with Samuel Richardson; excerpts of responses to Chapone's work from the Weekly Miscellany; and excerpts from contemporary legal literature. Also included is an annotated text of Chapone's pamphlet on the Muilman controversy, Remarks on Mrs. Muilman's Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield (London, 1750)" --publisher's description. page [i].
  
• Notes:"Designed to complement The Early Modern Englishwoman : A Facsimile Library of Essential Works", Contemporary Editions presents both modernized and old-spelling editions of texts."--Facing title page.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-124) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781409450771
  
• Contents:A note on the texts
  A note on the spelling of Chapone
  Facsimile title page of The hardship of the English laws in relation to wives
  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
  Remarks on Mrs. Muilman's letter to the right honourable the Earl of Chesterfield (1750)
  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
  Appendix three: excerpts from the Sarah Chapone-Samuel Richardson correspondence, with passages from The hardships of the English laws in relation to wives.