Female Ancestors » Women & the Law

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• Connor Prairie - Women and the Law in Early 19th Century

• Coverture (Wikipedia)

• Library of Congress - American Women: Resources from the Law Library

• Married Women's Property Act 1870 (UK) (Wikipedia)

• Married Women's Property Act 1882 (UK) (Wikipedia)

• Married Women's Property Act 1884 (UK) (Wikipedia)

• Married Women's Property Act 1893 (UK) (Wikipedia)

• Married Women's Property Acts in the United States (Wikipedia)

• New-York Historical Society | Resource 16: The New York State Married Women’s Property Law

• The Advancing Genealogist - Historic Publications on Women, Labor, and Related Laws

• Women and the Law of Property in Early America (Studies in Legal History)

  A book by Marylynn Salmon.

• Women, Money, and the Law - Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts