English Laws For Women In The Nineteenth Century

Author : Caroline Sheridan Norton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020911077

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English Laws for Women in The Nineteenth Century by Caroline Sheridan Norton Pdf

In this groundbreaking work, Caroline Sheridan Norton explores the social, legal, and political landscape of 19th century Britain from the perspective of women's rights and gender equality. Providing fascinating insights into the evolving role of women in British society, this book remains a landmark work in the field of women's studies. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Caroline Sheridan Norton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Divorce
ISBN : OSU:32437122560432

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English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century by Caroline Sheridan Norton Pdf

Author : Caroline Sheridan Norton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1330686667

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English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint) by Caroline Sheridan Norton Pdf

Excerpt from English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century It has been remarked to me, that if there were no other reason why a very reluctant attention should be granted to this Pamphlet, there would be "no time" to notice a discussion of the Law, arising out of affairs purely personal, at a period when subjects of momentous public importance occupy the minds of all men. In answer to that remark, I can only say, that I have never yet seen the public mind in a state of such undivided attention. I have no doubt, that in the present Session, as in all others, there will be "time" for all usual employments; time for assemblies, operas, and balls; time for races, club-dinners, and fetes; time for reading works of science, and works of fiction; for the most abstract study, and for the most frivolous gossip; time to discuss whether the arms of Scotland are properly quartered with the arms of England, as well as to debate whether the Emperor of Russia is to make war upon the world. It would be paying Englishmen a poor compliment to suppose that the one subject they are determined not to find time for, is the reform of some of their own laws; a reform confidently alluded to by the Lord Chancellor, in his speech of the 14th February last year; and formally introduced as one of the topics of the Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Mrs Joan Perkin,Joan Perkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134985647

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Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England by Mrs Joan Perkin,Joan Perkin Pdf

The 'bonds of matrimony' describes with cruel precision the social and political status of married women in the nineteenth century. Women of all classes had only the most limited rights of possession in their own bodies and property yet, as this remarkable book shows, women of all classes found room to manoeuvre within the narrow limits imposed on them. Upper-class women frequently circumvented the onerous limitations of the law, while middle-class women sought through reform to change their legal status. For working-class women, such legal changes were irrelevant, but they too found ways to ameliorate their position. Joan Perkin demonstrates clearly in this outstanding book, full of human insights, that women were not content to remain inferior or subservient to men.

Author : Caroline Norton
Publisher : Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Husband and wife
ISBN : 0897336224

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English Laws for Women in the 19th Century by Caroline Norton Pdf

In 1836, after eleven years of marriage, George Norton locked his wife Caroline out of their house, prevented her from seeing her children and sued for divorce. He lost the suit but was allowed to keep the children and his wife’s earnings from her writings. Caroline Norton wrote English Laws for Women after struggling unsuccessfully for eighteen years against this decision. It is a passionate plea for justice, filled with the horrifying details of Norton’s own predicament and her scornful, accurate assessment of English statutes and the courts treatment of women.

Author : Lee Holcombe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781487590185

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Wives & Property by Lee Holcombe Pdf

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 episode she recalled: 'I felt as if I had been charged with theft myself.' The English common law which deprived married women of the right to own and control property had far-reaching consequences for the status of women not only in other areas of law and in family life but also in education, and employment, and public life. To win reform of the married women's property law, feminism as an organized movement appeared in the 1850s, and the final success of the campaigns for reform in 1882 was one of the greatest achievements of the Victorian women's movement. Dr Holcombe explores the story of the reform campaign in the context of its time, giving particular attention to the many important men and women who worked for reform and to the debates on the subject which contributed greatly to the formulation of a philosophy of feminism.

Author : Constance Backhouse
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780889615229

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Petticoats and Prejudice - Women's Press Classics by Constance Backhouse Pdf

Drawing on historical records of women’s varying experiences as litigants, accused criminals, or witnesses, this book offers critical insight into women’s legal status in nineteenth-century Canada. In an effort to recover the social and political conditions under which women lobbied, rebelled, and in some cases influenced change, Petticoats and Prejudice weaves together forgotten stories of achievement and defeat in the Canadian legal system. Expanding the concept of “heroism” beyond its traditional limitations, this text gives life to some of Canada’s lost heroines. Euphemia Rabbitt, who resisted an attempted rape, and Clara Brett Martin, who valiantly secured entry into the all-male legal profession, were admired by their contemporaries for their successful pursuits of justice. But Ellen Rogers, a prostitute who believed all women should be legally protected against sexual assault, and Nellie Armstrong, a battered wife and mother who sought child custody, were ostracized for their ideas and demands. Well aware of the limitations placed upon women advocating for reform in a patriarchal legal system, Constance Backhouse recreates vivid and textured snapshots of these and other women’s courageous struggles against gender discrimination and oppression. Employing social history to illuminate the reproductive, sexual, racial, and occupational inequalities that continue to shape women’s encounters with the law, Petticoats and Prejudice is an essential entry point into the gendered treatment of feminized bodies in Canadian legal institutions. This book was co-published with The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Author : Lee Holcombe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835783774

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Wives and Property by Lee Holcombe Pdf

Author : Mary Lyndon Shanley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691024875

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Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England by Mary Lyndon Shanley Pdf

Bridging the fields of political theory and history, this comprehensive study of Victorian reforms in marriage law reshapes our understanding of the feminist movement of that period. As Mary Shanley shows, Victorian feminists argued that justice for women would not follow from public rights alone, but required a fundamental transformation of the marriage relationship.

Author : Anne Lorene Chambers,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802078397

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Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario by Anne Lorene Chambers,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Pdf

A meticulously researched and revisionist study of the nineteenth-century Ontario's Married Women's Property Acts. They were important landmarks in the legal emancipation of women.

Author : Norma Basch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058019160

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In the Eyes of the Law by Norma Basch Pdf

"This book ... is an expoloration [sic] of nineteenth-century social and ideological conflict over the appropriate roles for American women in marriage, in the economy, and in the political life of the nation. It is the story of legal changes forged grudgingly, slowly, and in bits and pieces, and of legal continuities sustained in subltle, complex and powerful ways." -- p. 10.

Author : Helena Wojtczak
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781904109051

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Women of Victorian Sussex by Helena Wojtczak Pdf

Author : Caroline Sheridan Norton
Publisher : Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Law
ISBN : CHI:28202864

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Caroline Norton's Defense by Caroline Sheridan Norton Pdf

This account of the author's experience at the hands of an "imperfect state of law" in early 19th-century England makes a passionate plea for equal justice for women. Largely as a result 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.

Author : Mary Lyndon Shanley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1350189073

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Feminism, Marriage and the Law in Victorian England, 1850-95 by Mary Lyndon Shanley Pdf

“Important both for political theorists and for women's studies. She explores with great care and thoroughness the connections between nineteenth century feminist argument and activism on the one hand, and familiar liberal principles of justice and equality on the other” - Nannerl 0. Keohane, Wellesley College Traditional studies of the women's movement in Victorian England focused on the battle for suffrage and other public rights. In this new study, however, Mary Lyndon Shanlev explores how Victorian women campaigned to reform the laws which related to marriage and the married state. Arguing that without a fundamental transformation of the marriage relationship there would be no justice for women, they fought a series of campaigns to change laws governing divorce, married women's property, infanticide, protective labour legislation, child custody, wife abuse, marital rape and the “restitution of conjugal rights”. Women involved in these campaigns exposed the connection between the privileged position of men in both public and private life and the reluctance of Parliament to enact the reforms women sought. In a series of case studies Shanley explores the demands of the reformers, and the response of Parliament. In an Epilogue, Shanley warns of the dangers to liberal feminism in relying exclusively on equal rights in the law as a formula for change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066121073

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Nineteenth Century Prose by Anonim Pdf