Financial Asset Quotes
Due to the 6 to 1 male to female ratio in the American Colonies, women were in a very good position to marry whom they chose and often married “above their station”. This quote is the dialogue of a lower class colonial window who inherited American land as a result of her husband’s death. In the play she marries twice above her station each time accumulating more and more wealth. Although this was a play, it was based on Bacon’s Rebellion and life in the American colonies around 1690.
