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Marrese demonstrates noblewomen's expanding rights in the eighteenth century on the basis of an array of archival and printed sources, including laws, court cases, and memoirs, and shows how this expansion formed part of a larger progressive agenda: the protection of private pro…
There are few things more emblematic of England's heritage than her country houses. But such properties are not just objects of artistic interest. They are also expressions of wealth and power and, as questions are asked of England's role in the Atlantic world, connections are b…