Married Women's Property Committee

The campaign for the Married Women's Property Act had begun with the formation of the Married Women's Property Committee in December 1855. Many successive bills had been presented to Parliament; none of them passed until...

JB threw herself into social work of all kinds, aiming to assist those less fortunate than herself. She began by visiting and examining oakum sheds, in which women, both prison inmates and creatures driven...

Even as a young mother in the early 1880s, EP found time to get involved with the Married Women's Property Act Committee , which met with hard-earned success in the Act of August 1882.

In 1855, MH took part in Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 's Married Women's Property Committee . As an open advocate of women in the early days of middle-class feminism, she commented in Adrienne Hope...

CN 's public humiliation at the hands of George Norton drove her to campaign against current divorce laws and property laws concerning women. Although not associated with feminist organisations pursuing the cause, she was in...

In a book for children she wrote that she was always glad that slavery was abolished in Jamacia before she was old enough to know anything about it, and that therefore the negroes, as I...

Although LB never married, she served as treasurer of the Married Women's Property Committee . She was treasurer, too, of the Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights .

At the meeting the female members of the first Married Women's Property Committee confirmed the text of BLSB 's parliamentary petition and planned for a signature crusade and then for the presentation of the petition...

EBB 's name headed the petition organised by Barbara Leigh Smith and the Married Women's Property Committee and presented to Parliament in December 1855 to lobby for reform to married women's property law: this made...

FPC was concerned about women's material conditions as well as formal rights. She laboured to obtain protection for battered women: an opponent in other contexts of flogging, she believed that the only effective remedy for...

The book's satire on parliament for its treatment of women was highly topical at a date two years after the new Divorce Act, three years after the Married Women's Property Committee was formed, and during...

Amid tips on interior decoration she slipped in some proto-feminist remarks: a dressing-table, she says, offers limited space for the paraphernalia of odds and ends which the law generously recognises as the sole and individual...

This was the year of the founding of the Married Women's Property Committee and of Barbara Leigh Smith 's pamphlet A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women. But...

She wrote this article at the height of the parliamentary debates on the legal rights of married women. Despite being very ill, CFC was determined to participate in this discourse and give aid to a...