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Rethinking the Familiar: Domestic Relations, Property, and Law in Early Modern England - Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England. By Ilena Krausman Ben-Amos. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 335. $32.50. - Private Matters and Public Culture in Post-Reformation England. By Lena Cowen Orlin. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii + 309. $41.50. - Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550–1700. By Frances E. Dolan. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii + 253. $37.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). - Women and Property in Early Modern England. By Amy Louise Erickson. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xiv + 306. $59.95. - Land and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300–1800. By Eileen Spring. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Pp. ix + 199. $29.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Patricia Crawford*
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia

Abstract

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Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 1996

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