Men, Women and Property in England, 1780–1870 - A Social and Economic History of Family Strategies amongst the Leeds Middle Class

This is an innovative study of middle-class behaviour and property relations in English towns in Georgian and Victorian Britain. Through the lens of wills, family papers, property deeds, account books and letters, the author offers a reading of the ways in which middle-class families survived and surmounted the economic difficulties of early industrial society.