Abstract
Evidence gathered from a small area of inner-city Melbourne indicates that women were far more active in the property market in the nineteenth century than has previously been recognised. Married women found ways to overcome common law restrictions to their ownership, and widows and daughters worked their way around the attention of trustees, but their land ownership was often disguised by the conventional use of male relatives’ names in the records. The unexpectedly high rate of women’s property ownership in this small urban area highlights the colony of Victoria’s early adoption of property rights for married women and raises the question of whether the findings would be consistent across the remainder of Victoria in this period.
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