Shakespeare's daughter
Peter W. Hassinger
Susanna Shakespeare yearns to travel to London like her father, to experience the world of actors and poets and to follow her own dream of singing, a path usually followed only by men.
Read Time: ~6.4 hr
Women before the bar
by Cornelia Hughes Dayton (1995)
About this book
Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions - including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic analysis of gendered litigation patterns, Cornelia Dayton argues that women's relation to the courtroom scene in early New England shifted from one of integration in the mid-seventeenth century to one of marginality by the eve of the Revolution.
Setting / LocationLondon & UK
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreWomen before the bar Lead Character
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