Article: Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario.(Review)

CHAMBERS, Lori, Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1997, 237 pp., $18.95 softcover.

ZHENG WU

In Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario, Lori Chambers provides an engaging and detailed account of reforms to nineteenth-century married women's property law in Ontario, (then known as Upper Canada). The book grew out of Chambers' dissertation research and was included in the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Series.

Chambers initially sets the context for reform with an examination of married women's legal status in the family and the social and structural changes leading to a series of property law reforms ...

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