Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia by Terri L. Snyder

Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia

Terri L. Snyder

200 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the poore husbands forced into defamation suits because their brabling wives had slandered or scandalized their neighbors. To qu...

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