Caroline Norton's defense English laws for women in the 19th century
(1982)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Chicago Review Press : Made available through hoopla, 1982
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780897339490 (electronic bk.) MWT11333689, 0897339495 (electronic bk.) 11333689
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
This account of the author's experiences at the hands of an "imperfect state of law" in early 19th-century England makes a passionate plea for equal justice for women. Largely because of this book, the passage of the Married Women's Property Act and reform of the English Marriage and Divorce Laws occurred some years later
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