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WOMEN BEFORE THE COURT

LAW AND PATRIARCHY IN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN WORLD, 16001800

Lindsay R. Moore

Manchester University Press

Copyright Lindsay R. Moore 2019

The right of Lindsay R. Moore to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Published by Manchester University Press

Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA

www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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ISBN 978 1 5261 3633 6 hardback

First published 2019

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During the years spent writing this book, I have developed quite a long list of people to thank. I am grateful to my mentors and advisors at George Washington University, especially Linda Levy Peck, who provided such important and helpful feedback during the earliest stages of this project, and who continues to give me guidance and advice. Many thanks to Marcy Norton and David Silverman for their constant encouragement, and for reading numerous early drafts this work. Keith Wrightson first introduced me to the value of legal records as a source of historical evidence in a seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and helped me navigate the archives during my year of research in England. Without the help of Heather Wolfe, whose palaeographical skills are unsurpassed, I never would have survived the archives. I am also grateful to Tim Stretton for his insightful and close readings of portions of this work.

This work would not have been possible without funding from many different sources and institutions. The Mellon Foundation and the Council on Library and Information Resources provided a year-long grant that funded a year of research in English archives. I am grateful to the staff and archivists at the Huntington Library and the Massachusetts Historical Society, whose wonderful collections rounded out so much of the research presented here. I would also like to thank the North American Conference on British Studies, the Coordinating Council for Women in History and the Cosmos Club for their generous contributions to my research.

Portions of this work have been published in the following volumes: Single women and sex in the early modern Atlantic world, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 5 (2010), pp. 2238; Women and property litigation in seventeenth-century England and North America, in Tim Stretton and Krista Kesselring (eds), Married Women and the Law: Coverture in England and the Common Law World (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013), pp. 11338; and Women, property, and the law in the Anglo-American world, 16301700, Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 14:3 (2016), pp. 53767.

As I wrote this book, at times I felt that I was giving more time and attention to women and men of the past rather than to the people surrounding me in the present. Luckily for me, my friends and family have borne it well. I thank Betty Medearis, whose vivacity and fun helped me leave the archives behind outside of working hours. I thank my family, especially Phil and Donna Moore, who have never stopped encouraging me. I am grateful for my daughter, Edie, who I hope one day will be inspired by the fierce women of the past. Finally, I thank my most ardent supporter, my husband Ken Marshall. He doubts many things, but he has always believed in my ability to accomplish great things. Without him, I never would have undertaken this journey in the first place.

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