Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia

by Karin Wulf

Book Overview

Marital status was a fundamental legal and cultural feature of women's identity in the eighteenth century. Free women who were not married could own property and make wills, contracts, and court appearances, rights that the law of coverture prevented their married sisters from enjoying. Karin Wulf explores the significance of marital status in this account of unmarried women in Philadelphia, the largest city in the British colonies.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812219171
• ISBN13: 9780812219173
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"