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The Montagu property network was inherited by two successive heiresses in the eighteenth century: Mary, duchess of Montagu, and her daughter Elizabeth, duchess of Buccleuch. The inheritance of a large property network by these women had a profound effect on both the use of the properties and the extent to which both women were able to assert their own agency through their management. The heiress remains...