Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales with Jennifer Aston

Join NACBS for a discussion of Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19-century England and Wales: 'For Wives Alone'. Amy Froide will join author Jennifer Aston in conversation.  

April 30 at 12pm EST/ 11am CST/ 10am MST / 9am PST / 5pm GMT

Jennifer Aston is Associate Professor in Law at Northumbria University. She is the author of Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in Nineteenth Century England and Wales: 'For Wives Alone' (Hart, 2024), winner of the SLS Margaret Brazier Second Prize for Outstanding Mid-Career Scholarship and shortlisted for the Hart-SLSA Book Prize and the Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize, and Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England: Engagement in the Urban Economy (Palgrave, 2016). She has served as Production Editor of Feminist Legal Studies, Deputy Editor of History: The Journal of the Historical Association and is Chair of the Publications Committee of the Economic History Society. 

Amy M. Froide is Professor of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She is the Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC. Froide is the author of Silent Partners: Women as Public Investors during Britain’s Financial Revolution, 1690-1750 (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England
 (Oxford University Press, 2005). She has served as the books reviews editor for JBS and an executive council member of NACBS.