Urban Fortunes

Jon Stobart, University of Coventry, UK and Alastair Owens, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK Alastair Owens, Jon Stobart, Lorna Scammell, Geoffrey Crossick, Alastair Owens, W. D. Rubinstein, Ann McCrum, Penelope Lane, David R. Green.

• Contents: Introduction; Alastair Owens and Jon Stobart; Town versus country: the property of everyday consumption in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Lorna Scammell; Meanings of property and the world of the petite bourgeoisie, Geoffrey Crossick; Property, will making and estate disposal in an industrial town, 1800-1857, Alastair Owens; Social and geographical contexts of property transmission in the eighteenth century, Jon Stobart; The role of London in Britain’s wealth structure, 1809-99: further evidence, W. D. Rubinstein; Inheritance and the family: the Scottish urban experience in the 1820s, Ann McCrum; Women, property and inheritance: wealth creation and income generation in small English towns, 1750-1835, Penelope Lane; Independent women, wealth and wills in nineteenth-century London, David R. Green; Bibliography; Index.

'...these essays represent fine pieces of historical empiricism, offer important findings about the nature of middle-class social life...and will be a must for those working on the history of testamentary documents in the period.' Continuity and Change