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Stephen Foster Review of Bettina Bradbury, Caroline’s Dilemma : A Colonial Inheritance Saga
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Stephen Foster Review of Bettina Bradbury, Caroline’s Dilemma : A Colonial Inheritance Saga
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'Sir William Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), memorably described the legal power of a father over his children as ‘the empire of the father’—a phrase that might equally be applied to the husband’s power over his wife. A mother, as Blackstone explained in parentheses, was ‘entitled to no power, but only to reverence and respect’.' (Introduction)
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Stephen Foster Review of Bettina Bradbury, Caroline’s Dilemma : A Colonial Inheritance Saga
Australian Journal of Biography and History