Table of Contents

Introduction: Women's Property Matters
1: "How Can Money be a Corpse's?" Wealth, Women, and Wills in Our Mutual Friend
2: "A Purse in Common": Money, Mutuality, and Darwinian Survival in Wives and Daughters
3: Greed, Generosity, and other Problems with Unmarried Women's Property
4: "That Blent Transmission": Women's Property Law and Jewish Cultural Inheritance in Daniel Deronda
5: "Giv[ing] All She Had": Hester's Pearls and the Obligations of Women's Property
Afterword: Women's Property Matters Now

About the Author

Jill Rappoport is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, where her research has focused on representations of gender, economic traditions, and community activism in nineteenth-century British literature. She is the author of Giving Women: Alliance and Exchange in Victorian Culture (2012) and co-editor of Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (2013). Her articles have
appeared in a range of journals and volumes including Nineteenth-Century Literature; Victorian Literature and Culture; SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900; Victorian Studies, and Victorian Poetry.