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In tender consideration : women, families, and the law in Abraham Lincoln's Illinois / edited by Daniel W. Stowell.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks KFI 1291 .W6 I5 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Illinois--History.
- Women.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Illinois.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2002.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Michael Grossberg
- Introduction / Daniel W. Stowell
- Femes UnCovert: women's encounters with the law / Daniel W. Stowell
- For the well-being of the child: the law and childhood / Dennis E. Suttles
- Dissolving the bonds of matrimony: women and divorce in Sangamon County, Illinois, 1837-60 / Stacy Pratt McDermott
- Inheriting the earth: the law of succession / John A. Lupton
- Wives, widows, and will makers: women and the law of property / Christopher A. Schnell
- The law in an Illinois corner: the impact of the law on an Antebellum family / Stacy Pratt McDermott
- Infamous outrage and prompt retribution: the case of People v. Delny / Susan Krause
- Her day in court: the legal odyssey of Clarissa Wren / Daniel W. Stowell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0252027027
- 9780252027024
- 0252073398
- 9780252073397
- OCLC:
- 46928860
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