Drs. Spring, Akin, Margulis, and Tennenhouse comment

Editorial: Women in economic and social history: twenty‐fifth anniversary of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society

“…Eileen Spring discussed the practice of 'heiress hunting' and women's rights of inheritance in medieval England. 65 Pam Sharpe decided to focus on spinsters in her demographic history of Colyton in Devon. 66 Sarah Horrell and Deborah Oxley discussed the resource allocation within late Victorian British households, especially when breadwinners were usually male.…”