Chancery

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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
Family and Intimate relationships Agnes Mary Clerke
AMC 's younger brother, Aubrey St John Clerke , after receiving an education at boarding school and Trinity College , became a Chancery barrister in London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications.
831
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln
Elizabeth Lincoln 's son and heir, the Earl of Lincoln , sued his mother in Chancery as guardian of his younger brothers.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press.
7: 696
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...
Education Catherine Maria Grey
As a ward of ChanceryCMG would have probably received a basic education in reading and writing under the supervision of the court.
Cultural formation Catherine Maria Grey
CMG was born into the English professional class, into the defined world of those white people who worked and lived in British India. Her father died while she was still young, and she was...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Jenkins
Her mother, born Theodora Caldicott Ingram , came from a family of Methodists and was seven years older than her husband. Though Theodora's father's name was Ingram, the name Caldicott lingered in the family as...
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...
Characters Sarah Macnaughtan
Peter Ogilvie is, so far as he knows, the heir to his parents' fortune, and Jane Erskine is a ward of Chancery who will not come into her own money until the age of twenty-five...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
This was clearly a custody struggle. The family of the countess's first husband had had the children of that marriage made wards in Chancery . Anna was fourteen at this time; their stepfather had at...
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...

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

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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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