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Women and property

Aylmer, G.E., ‘The meaning and definition of ‘property’ in Seventeenth-Century England’ Past and Present 86 (1980): 87-97
Brewer, John and Susan Staves (ed.), Early modern conceptions of property (London, 1995)
Cavallo, Sandra, and Lyndan Warner, eds., Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (New York, 1999)
Erickson, Amy Louise, Women and property in Early Modern England (New York, 1993)
Harris, Barbara J., English aristocratic women, 1450 – 1550 (New York, 2002)
Spring, Eileen, Land, law, and family: aristocratic inheritance in England 1300-1800 (Chapel Hill, 1993)
Staves, Susan, Married women's separate property in England, 1660-1833 (Harvard, 1990)
Wright, Nancy E., Margaret W. Ferguson, and A.R. Buck, eds., Women, property, and the letters of the law in early modern England (Toronto, 2004)

Women and law

Cioni, Maria, ‘The Elizabethan Chancery and women’s rights’ in D. Guth, and J.W. Mckenna, eds., Tudor rule and revolution (Cambridge, 1982)
Gonzales, Cynthia nne, Taking it to court: Litigating women in the city of Valencia, 1550--1600
Greenberg, J., 'The legal status of the English woman in early eighteenth century common law and equity', Studies in Eighteenth century Culture, 4 (1975)
Klerman, Daniel, Review of Stretton, Tim, Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England. H-Law, H-Net Reviews. May, 2000. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=4068
Prest, W.R., 'Law and women's rights in early modern England', The Seventeenth century, VI (1991), 169-87
Salmon, Marylynn, Women and the Law of Property in Early America (Chaperl Hill, 1989)
Stretton, Tim, Women waging law in Elizabethan England (Cambridge, 1998)
Walker and Loengard's work on medieval dower litigation in Sue Sheridan Walker (ed.), - Wife & Widow in Medieval England (Ann Arbor,1993)]

• Loengard, Janet Senderowitz, 'Rationabilis Dos: Magna Carta and the Widow's "fair share" in the earlier thirteenth century' in S.S. Walker (1993)
• Walker, Sue Sheridan, 'Litigation as personal quest: suing for dower in the Roayal Courts, circa 1272-1350' in S.S. Walker (1993)

Gender

Berry, Helen, Gender, society, and print culture in late Stuart England: the cultural world of the Athenian mercury (Aldershot, 2003)
Charlton, Kenneth, Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England (London, 1999)

• Discusses coffee house culture and implications for women

Weisner, Merry E., Women and gender in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1993)

Women in business

Phillips, Nicola Jane, Women in business, 1700-1850 (XXXX, 2006)

Spatial separation of women and men

Flather, Amanda, Gender and space in early modern England (Aldershot, 2007)