Women's agency in early modern Britain and the American colonies : patriarchy, partnership and patronage / Rosemary O'Day.

Author/creator O'Day, Rosemary
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoHarlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2007.
Descriptionviii, 494 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThemes in British social history
Themes in British social history. ^A231073
Contents General introduction -- How and where were marriages solemnised? -- What was marriage? What was its purpose? -- Finding a partner among the landed aristocracy -- Making marriages among women of the professional and the middling sorts -- Attitudes to marriage -- Patriarchy -- Partnership and separation -- Mistress of the household : what wives did all day -- Mothers -- Wives and property -- Widows and widowhood -- Women's formal and informal education -- Women and religion -- Contemporary culture : print and non-print, public and private -- Women's cultural lives : participation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [429]-475) and indexes.
ISBN9780582294639
ISBN0582294630