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Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies

By Cristina León Alfar, Emily Sherwood
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$233.99
By Cristina León Alfar, Emily Sherwood
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The documents contained in Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies tell a story of Mistress Bourne's petition for divorce, its resolution, and the ongoing dispute between Mistress Bourne and her husband about their marriage and separation, and subsequently between Mistress Bourne and Sir John Conway both for custody of her daughters and her financial security. The letters capture the contradiction between married women's official legal limitations an...

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HistoryEuropean HistoryBritish History - General & Miscellaneous17th Century British History - Stuart Dynasty, 1603-164917th Century British History - Stuart Restoration, 1660-1714