Chancery

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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
The family's former wealth is reflected in John Hutchinson's...
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
It may have been after the couple had separated that SLP 's father died, and her husband brought a suit in Chancery to overthrow the will by which Sarah was to inherit independently of his...
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
During this decade RMR and her husband were losing money hand...
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/.

Timeline

1797: R. Dutton published, anonymously, The Advertisement...

Writing climate item

1797

R. Dutton published, anonymously, The Advertisement for a Husband, A Novel; in a Series of Letters, between Belinda Blacket, Louisa Lenox, and others.

June 1854: Arguing for his Divorce Bill but against...

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June 1854

Arguing for his Divorce Bill but against a husband's adultery as grounds for divorce, Lord Chancellor Cranworth remarked that it would be too harsh to bring the law to bear against a husband who was...

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