Allison Tait

Allison Tait is legal historian of early modern France and England. Her work focuses on the rights of married women, property ownership, and inheritance law.


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Fiction Brief Round-Up

As if the arrival of Public Picks earlier this month weren’t enough, our new round-up of four brief reviews of recent novels offers that many more suggestions for intriguing summer reads: from unlikely friends from Boston with ambiguous relationships to exotic lands, to the “ordinary horror” of living through Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence; from […]