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The Pursuit Of The Heiress Aristocratic Marriage In Ireland 17401840 Apw Malcomson

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Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 33.51 MB

Pages: 300

Author: A.P.W. Malcomson

ISBN: 9781903688656, 1903688655

Language: English

Year: 2006

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The Pursuit Of The Heiress Aristocratic Marriage In Ireland 17401840 Apw Malcomson by A.p.w. Malcomson 9781903688656, 1903688655 instant download after payment.

The Pursuit of the Heiress is a new, greatly enlarged and more widely focused version of what the late Lawrence Stone described as "a brilliant long essay or short book on the subject of the role of heiresses among the Irish aristocracy," which was published by the Ulster Historical Foundation under the same title in 1982 and has long been out of print. The new book comes to the same broad conclusions about heiressesnamely that their importance as a means of enlarging the estates or retrieving the fortunes of their husbands has been much exaggerated. This was because known heiresses were well protected by a variety of legal devices and, in common with many aristocratic women of the day, also had minds and strong preferences of their ownwhich meant that they were not generally an object of deliberate or profitable pursuit. The new book also ranges more widely than its central theme of heiresses and addresses other aspects of aristocratic marriage such as abductions, elopements, mésalliances, the supposed "rise of the affective family," and the disadvantaged situation of even the richest and most privileged women in an age when both adultery and divorce were largely the prerogative of men.