The documents contained in Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne:
Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies tell a story of
Mistress Bourne's petition for divorce, its resolution, and the
ongoing dispute between Mistress Bourne and her husband about their
marriage and separation, and subsequently between Mistress Bourne
and Sir John Conway both for custody of her daughters and her
financial security. The letters capture the contradiction between
married women's official legal limitations and the often messy and
complicated avenues of redress available to them. Elizabeth's
narratives and desire for divorce challenge literary
representations of patient endurance where appropriate feminine
behavior restores a husband's devotion. The Bourne case offers a
unique set of documents heretofore unavailable except through the
British Library, National Archives' State Papers, and Hatfield
House. Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne is tremendously important
to early modern scholars and our knowledge about and view of
women's negotiations for legal autonomy in the sixteenth century.
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