Boarding House vs Apartment: What's the Difference?
What is the difference between a boarding house and an apartment? Shared meals and house rules, against a private kitchen and your own lease.
Her house, her rules, her story
The Landlady
The Landlady examines how women who own, run, or let property have been imagined and represented, from boarding houses to small-scale landlords. It is a guide to the cultural and practical questions that surround the landlady as a figure of domestic authority, economic independence, and everyday housing.
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Women and Property ·
Coverture: What It Meant for a Married Woman's Property
Coverture, or being a feme covert, meant a married woman's legal identity was absorbed into her husband's. Here is what that meant for her property.
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8 / 16Roald Dahl's 'The Landlady': The Story Behind the Name
Roald Dahl wrote a short story called The Landlady in 1959. Here is what it says, and carefully does not say, about the woman who owns the house.
Landlord or Landlady: Why the Words Are Not Symmetrical
Landlord and landlady look like a matching pair, but their histories, legal status and connotations are not the same. Here is why.
The Landlady as Comic Type on Television
Television has long used the landlady as a comic figure. This article explores her recurring roles, from nosy gatekeeper to warm-hearted surrogate mother.
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The Landlady in Gothic Fiction
Why does the landlady haunt gothic and horror stories? We explore rooms, rent, secrets and the fear of the woman who owns the door.
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The Landlady in Detective Novels
Landladies in detective fiction serve as gatekeepers, witnesses, and suspects, shaping the genre's social texture from classic to contemporary.
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Landlady Memoirs and Life Writing
Landlady memoirs reveal how home and business blur when a private kitchen becomes a rented room and every door has two owners.
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Fiction and Media
How the landlady appears in novels, film, television, and popular culture.
Women and Property
The social and economic role of women as property owners and small landlords.
Boarding House History
The boarding house as a site of domestic authority, rental history, and changing ideas of home.
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The house in section
Three registers, one floor plan. Each room is a line of enquiry, and every piece published here occupies a numbered slot on the drawing.
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- 02Women and PropertyWP
- 03Boarding House HistoryBH
- 04Corrections deskED
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