English Professor Seeks Literature Revealing the Testator’s Mind

I am posting the following inquiry on behalf of Elizabeth Stone, Professor of English, Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University:

As part of some research I am doing, I am looking for works of fiction (novels, short stories, plays, poems, films) in which a last will and testament figures prominently.  Particularly, I am interested in works that reveal the mind of the testator.  (What is it that informs the spirit of the bequests?  How much consciousness, if any, does the testator have of the impact of the bequest on the survivors?) Second, I am interested in works that explore the impact of the will on the survivors’ relationship with one another.  How does the content of the will affect their relationship?
   
Among the works I already have on my list: Shaw’s MAJOR BARBARA, Forster’s HOWARDS END, George Eliot’s MIDDLEMARCH, Trollope’s ORLY FARM, Maile Meloy’s FAMILY DAUGHTER.  KING LEAR doesn’t actually have a will, but it is about an aging father’s bequest to his daughters, the conditions he imposes and the consequences of the conditions.
      
I already have a few memoirs about legacies in mind–one is Rich Cohen’s SWEET’N LOW, another is Dorothy Gallagher’s HOW I CAME INTO MY INHERITANCE, and the third is MOMMY DEAREST about Joan Crawford’s daughter–but I’d be interested to know of more.
   
Thank you in advance for whatever citations any of you might be able to send my way. Please send them to ElizStone@aol.com