The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800. Janet ToddMarried Women's Separate Property in England, 1660-1833. Susan Staves

Signs ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 430-433
Author(s):  
Mary Poovey
Keyword(s):  
Separate Property ◽  
Women Writing

Women Writing History: Looking Backward and Forward

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-176
Author(s):  
Durba Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Women Writing

Women Writing in India Reconsidered

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
Susie Tharu
Keyword(s):  
Women Writing

Married Women Bankrupts in the Age of Coverture

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (02) ◽  
pp. 265-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Pearlston
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Married Woman ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Separate Property ◽  
The Law

Many married women with separate property held their property as stock‐in‐trade and traded independently from their husbands. However, if the business failed, a married woman trader's ability to take advantage of bankruptcy process depended on the exception to coverture according to which she held her separate property. This article is the first to examine reported bankruptcy cases involving married women in their doctrinal context and in relation to other exceptions to coverture. It analyzes the issues arising in the eighteenth century and argues that they should be understood in relation to the larger picture of married women's law, especially the law of private separation. The article also considers the oblique relationship between private separation jurisprudence and married women's bankruptcy in the nineteenth century, a relationship that was bridged by a line of cases that, on the surface, seem to be unrelated.

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