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On my other post I had remarked that I found it interesting that women wrote wills during the nineteenth century but through this article I found more interesting how light-hearted women were about wills. "It may have been that women, who looked at death with every pregnancy...had less trouble making preparations for their dying."(p. 134). This statement proved that although women seemed to have more trouble with finances in Petersburg they were willing to be prepared and to protect their assets for their heirs. Women are typically seen as being more caring and watchful over families and through the wills in this article I find it to be true over men. Men just wrote out property (moveable or not) and to whom, women gave thought to the process; was it due to the fact that they were more nurturing or prepared? Did women face death more often than men of the nineteenth century? -Megan W. | On my other post I had remarked that I found it interesting that women wrote wills during the nineteenth century but through this article I found more interesting how light-hearted women were about wills. "It may have been that women, who looked at death with every pregnancy...had less trouble making preparations for their dying."(p. 134). This statement proved that although women seemed to have more trouble with finances in Petersburg they were willing to be prepared and to protect their assets for their heirs. Women are typically seen as being more caring and watchful over families and through the wills in this article I find it to be true over men. Men just wrote out property (moveable or not) and to whom, women gave thought to the process; was it due to the fact that they were more nurturing or prepared? Did women face death more often than men of the nineteenth century? -Megan W. | ||
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| + | I thought this article was fascinating. The author described a period of time when single women had more control over property. I was curious about how men reacted to this new development. Thomas Jefferson was an adolescent when his father died. He received property and slaves from his father, but due to his young age, his mother had some control over her husband’s estate. Young Jefferson was not too happy about this situation and I do not think it was a coincidence that the rest his life was void of a strong attachment to his mother and any assertion of legal rights for women. -Allison Luthern | ||
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| + | Divorce in New England | ||
| + | The fact that Connecticut permitted divorces does extend some legal protection for abandoned married women. However, it is obvious that the Connecticut legislature was more sympathetic to men seeking this divorce-by-neglect rather than women. When Goody Beckwith and Hanna Huit requested a divorce, the legislature required others to testify that the women’s story of their husbands’ desertion was true. However, when Robert Wade=2 0requested a divorce from his runaway wife, the legislature was horrified, obviously sympathetic, and did not bother to double-check his story. A modern observer should not declare the new legal action of divorce a total triumph for the rights of women. -Allison Luthern | ||
