A law unto herself /
"A scathing critique of the legal status of women and their property rights in nineteenth-century America, Rebecca Harding Davis's 1878 novel A Law Unto Herself chronicles the experiences of Jane Swendon, a seemingly naive and conventional nineteenth-century protagonist struggling to care...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Renfroe, Alicia Mischa, editor. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015. |
| Series: | Legacies of nineteenth-century American women writers
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
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