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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

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