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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Feme Covert"”.
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Married Women’s Litigation in the English Court of Chancery, 1698-1758
… have shown that the theoretical strictures of coverture were not as suffocating as they appear during this period. Reflecting this, Chancery treated women not entirely as feme covert or feme sole, but bestowed upon them something in between – pseudo-feme sole status. The law impacted the extent …
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To See Her Face, To Hear Her Voice: Profiling the Place of Women in Early Upper East Tennessee, 1773-1810.
<p>Following the Proclamation Act of 1763 growing numbers of colonists arrived in upper East Tennessee to settle and build wherever they could make arrangements with local groups of Cherokee. While these first families were occupied with survival, the British colonies continued to thrive. …