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Until recently, women featured in the historiography of the landed class in Ireland either as bearers of assets to advantageous matches or as potential drains on family estates as a result of long widowhoods. Drawing on a range of sources from the papers of landed families, including settlements, wills and personal correspondence, this book challenges established notions and provides fresh insight into the place of these women. It seeks to contribute to existing historiography by looking beyond the dynastic and economic concerns that dominate the current history of the Irish elite. The book looks at women's experiences of property and power in twenty landed families between 1750 and 1850, and outlines the statutory developments that impacted upon the distribution of family property in Ireland. It considers how women were provided for by family settlements and examines the legal, social and familial factors that influenced the experience elite women had of property. Individual examples are employed to demonstrate the similarities and differences between women in this class, and to illustrate how the experience women had of property in this period was more complex than their legal an

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Author

Wilson, Deborah

Publisher

Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847797216

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science

Updated

2026-03-24