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ABSTRACT
The paper gives the legal reasons for the heroine’s wicked uncle’s becoming the owner of all of her late father’s property instead of her and her sister.
Katz, Leslie, Out of Wedlock, out of Luck; what Happened to Andrew Vanstone’s Estate in Wilkie Collins’s No Name (December 16, 2021).
First posted 2021-12-20 13:00:41
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