Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
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Married Women's Property Committee
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Material Conditions of Writing | Dinah Mulock Craik | 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... |
| Occupation | Josephine Butler | 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... |
| politics | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 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... |
| politics | Frances Power Cobbe | 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... |
| politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | 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. |
| politics | Matilda Hays | In 1855, MH
took part in Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
's Married Women's Property Committee
. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994. 8 |
| politics | Caroline Norton | 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... |
| politics | Mary Anne Barker | 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... |
| politics | Lydia Becker | 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
. |
| politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | 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... |
| Textual Features | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | 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... |
| Textual Features | Mary Anne Barker | 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... |
| Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | 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... |
| Textual Production | Caroline Norton | 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... |
Timeline
December 1855: Barbara Leigh Smith, later Bodichon, founded...
National or international item
December 1855
Barbara Leigh Smith
, later Bodichon, founded the Married Women's Property Committee
(sometimes called the Women's Committee) to draw up a petition for a married women's property bill.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
78-9
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
32-3
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
245-8
14 March 1856: A petition for Reform of the Married Women's...
National or international item
14 March 1856
A petition for Reform of the Married Women's Property Law, organized by the Married Women's Property Committee
and signed by many prominent women, was presented to both Houses of Parliament.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
32, 35
Helsinger, Elizabeth K. et al. The Woman Question. Garland, 1983.
2: 14
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
208
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
214
21 April 1868: A Married Women's Property Bill prepared...
National or international item
21 April 1868
A Married Women's Property Bill prepared by the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
was sponsored by George Shaw Lefevre
and John Stuart Mill
; it stalled because the vote in the House
18 August 1882: The Married Women's Property Act gave women...
National or international item
18 August 1882
The Married Women's Property Act gave women the right to all the property they earned or acquired before or during marriage.
Holcombe, Lee. Wives and Property: Reform of the Married Women’s Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England. University of Toronto Press, 1983.
256
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
7
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
82
Hurwitz, Edith F., and Renate Bridenthal. “The International Sisterhood”. Becoming Visible: Women in European History, edited by Claudia Koonz, Houghton Mifflin, 1977, pp. 325-4.
353
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
“Property Rights of Women”. What You Need to Know About Women’s History.
Blackstone, Sir William, and Edward Christian. Commentaries on the Laws of England. 15th ed., Vol.
4 vols.
, T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809. Roberts, Marie Mulvey, and Tamae Mizuta, editors. The Wives: The Rights of Married Women. Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1994, http://University of Waterloo - Porter.
Lacey, Candida Ann, editor. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group. Routledge, 1987.
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