9781409456025_oachapter4.pdf
Women like Jane Ashley, Amabel Hume-Campbell, Anna Maria Agar, Sarah Dawes and Mary Cotterel were all involved in pushing through parliamentary enclosure awards, while Elizabeth Prowse introduced wide-ranging agricultural improvements after the informal enclosure of the open fields at Wicken. Th...
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2019
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| Περίληψη: | Women like Jane Ashley, Amabel Hume-Campbell,
Anna Maria Agar, Sarah Dawes and Mary Cotterel were all involved in pushing
through parliamentary enclosure awards, while Elizabeth Prowse introduced
wide-ranging agricultural improvements after the informal enclosure of the open
fields at Wicken. The contributions of these women and others like them to a
bundle of related practices – including parliamentary enclosure and agricultural
improvement, but also non-agricultural sources of estate income – are discussed
in this chapter. |
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