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Women of Fortune
Linda Levy Peck
其他書名
Money, Marriage, and Murder in Early Modern England
出版Cambridge University Press, 2018-10-25
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / RenaissanceHistory / Social HistorySocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Women's Studies
ISBN11070340279781107034020
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Z5VuDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Women of Fortune tells the compelling story of mercantile wealth, arranged marriages, and merchant heiresses who asserted their rights despite loss, imprisonment, and murder. Following three generations of the Bennet and Morewood families, who made their fortune in Crown finance, the East Indies, the Americas, and moneylending, Linda Levy Peck explores the changing society, economy, and culture of early modern England. The heiresses - curious, intrepid, entrepreneurial, scholarly - married into the aristocracy, fought for their property, and wrote philosophy. One spent years on the Grand Tour. Her life in Europe, despite the outbreak of war, is vividly documented. Another's husband went to debtors' prison. She recovered the fortune and bought shares. Husbands, sons, and contemporaries challenged their independence legally, financially, even violently, but new forms of wealth, education, and the law enabled these heiresses to insist on their own agency, create their own identities, and provide examples for later generations.