To do the right thing: gender, wealth, inheritance and the London middle class

David Green

To do the right thing: gender, wealth, inheritance and the London middle class

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This chapter explores the way in which men and women in mid-nineteenth-century London disposed of their wealth through their wills. It highlights the importance of gender as a way of understanding the way in which inheritance was organised, pointing to the ways in which men acted differently to women. Drawing on a large sample of wills, it questions the assumption that women had little economic agency of their owhn.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Women and their money 1700-1950
Subtitle of host publication	Essays on women and finance
Editors	Ann Laurence, Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford
Place of Publication	Abingdon
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	133-150
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	9780415419765
Publication status	Published - 2008

Publication series

Name	Routledge International Studies in Business History
Publisher	Routledge

Keywords

Inheritance
Wills
London
Wealth holding
Nineteenth century

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To do the right thing: gender, wealth, inheritance and the London middle class. / Green, David.
Women and their money 1700-1950: Essays on women and finance. ed. / Ann Laurence; Josephine Maltby; Janette Rutterford. Abingdon: Routledge, 2008. p. 133-150 (Routledge International Studies in Business History).

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