Women of Fortune tells the compelling story of mercantile wealth,
arranged marriages, and merchant heiresses who asserted their
rights despite loss, imprisonment, and murder. Following three
generations of the Bennet and Morewood families, who made their
fortune in Crown finance, the East Indies, the Americas, and
moneylending, Linda Levy Peck explores the changing society,
economy, and culture of early modern England. The heiresses -
curious, intrepid, entrepreneurial, scholarly - married into the
aristocracy, fought for their property, and wrote philosophy. One
spent years on the Grand Tour. Her life in Europe, despite the
outbreak of war, is vividly documented. Another's husband went to
debtors' prison. She recovered the fortune and bought shares.
Husbands, sons, and contemporaries challenged their independence
legally, financially, even violently, but new forms of wealth,
education, and the law enabled these heiresses to insist on their
own agency, create their own identities, and provide examples for
later generations.
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