Wives & Property : : Reform of the Married Women's Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England / / Lee Holcombe.
In the 1870s Millicent Garrett Fawcett had her purse snatched by a young thief in London. When he appeared in court to testify, she heard the young man charged with 'stealing from the person of Millicent Fawcett a purse containing £1 18s 6d the property of Henry Fawcett.' Long after the ep...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1983 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; halftones throughout |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. 'The First Point in the Women's Charter'
- 2. 'The Virtual Slavery of Marriage'
- 3. 'The Guardian of the Weak and Unprotected'
- 4. 'The Germs of an Effective Movement'
- 5. 'The Wind Out of Our Sails'
- 6. 'The Peculiar Character of the Modern World'
- 7. 'The Burthen of Proof
- 8. 'That Legislative Abortion'
- 9. 'What an Emancipation is This!'
- 10. 'The Equality of Two'
- APPENDIXES NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEXES