Women's Strategies for Managing Land in Rural England, circa 1700-1800
(2021)
Journal Article
Rhodes, J. (2021). Women's Strategies for Managing Land in Rural England, circa 1700-1800. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 44(4), 405-422. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12804
Analysing landholding histories of sixty-one women farming land in Puddletown, Dorset, across the eighteenth century, this article shows, first, that the scale of women's ownership and occupation of land declined over time and, second, that women wer... Read More about Women's Strategies for Managing Land in Rural England, circa 1700-1800.