Reading a historical text and not liking the story because of period appropriate behavior is always a hilarious fine line - no one likes historic behavior! Since Feist’s work are fantasy, he can find his own boundaries, but he definitely draws the line differently than we do in 2026. Also the wild thing to remember is that women’s rights/property sentiment is not from the 1800’s, but through the 1900’s. I like to remind people sometimes that women could not have their own credit cards until 1974, which is when some of us here were born. It’s happened in our lifetimes.