In 'The Mores' Clare says that 'All sighed when lawless laws enclosure came', (78) and suggests that enclosure has even taken away the freedom of 'sheep and cows'. (23) It may be said that Clare views enclosure as a removal of the 'unbounded freedom' that he experienced before 'fence or ownership crept in between'. (7-8) So it may be said that Clare's suffering of a harsh and bitter personal experience was also a shared historical one. ... It is shown in the novel however that a wife is 'as much a man's property as his hors...

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