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Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Thomas | This was the low point (so far) in Thomas's life. Gwinnett had changed his will less than three weeks before his death, and left her 600 pounds, but his family ensured that it did not... |
Wealth and Poverty | Margaret Hoby | Like most of her class, female as well as male, she was often involved in property deals. The year before her third marriage she faced a Chancery
suit with the heir of her patrons the... |
Wealth and Poverty | Lucy Hutchinson | She hoped that her brother-in-law would allow her son to go on living there, but instead the estate became the subject of a Chancery
case. Greer, Germaine. “Horror like Thunder”. London Review of Books, pp. 22-4. 22 |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Justice | Issues of money were crucial to the break-up of EJ
's marriage. She describes her husband as miserly, and as frequently leaving his wife and children without means of support while the couple remained technically... |
Wealth and Poverty | Sarah, Lady Pennington | |
Wealth and Poverty | Jane Barker | Times were hard for small landowners, and much harder for Catholics. JB
's niece Mary Staton
brought a suit against her in Chancery
to force her to pay a debt. King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press. xiii, 13-14 |
Wealth and Poverty | Regina Maria Roche | The initial financial crisis lasted for two years and concerned RMR
's small encumbered (that is to say, debt-ridden) estate, inherited from her father in King's County. Their lawyer, Mr Buswell
, misrepresented its... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ellen Wood | Set in the recent past, The Channings details the trials of a devout middle-class family. As the novel opens, they discover that a legacy they had been counting on has been denied them by Chancery |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charles Dickens | Its critique of the position of the poor, notably in the character of Jo the crossing sweep, is coupled with a sharp analysis of the Byzantine operations of the Courts of Chancery
. The cast... |
Textual Features | Caroline Norton | Observations on the Natural Claim of the Mother to the Custody of her Infant Children asserts that all children under seven ought to remain in the care of their mothers, and that for those above... |
Textual Features | Frances Notley | Meanwhile Estrild, who is not yet of age, has come under the guardianship of Mr Vicat, her uncle. Vicat plans to marry Estrild, for her wealth, to his sickly son Gilbert. At first Estrild resists... |
Other Life Event | Teresia Constantia Phillips | Dr Henchman argued that the other side's multiplication of the main issue into innumerable subsidiary points, each requiring many witnesses, ensured the case such longevity that the youngest man here will never live to see... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Regina Maria Roche | It seems actually to have appeared by November 1819. A New York edition appeared in 1820, and a French translation in 1821. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 505 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Maria Grey | CMG
's father, Benjamin Grindall
, worked as an employee of the Bengal Civil Service
and died when she was a young girl, leaving CMG
a ward of Chancery
. He made his will on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anthony Trollope | His father, Thomas Anthony Trollope
, was a barrister in the Court of Chancery
until his career was jeopardized by his unacceptably rude behaviour. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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