In the third volume of this memoir, she recalls a visit to Newgate
in 1831 with Elizabeth Fry
, remarking about the prisoners, I felt broken-hearted for them, . . . and ashamed for us...
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Caroline Norton
The early part of the work summarizing the legal position of women reads much like Barbara Leigh Smith
's A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, published the...
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Rosa Nouchette Carey
In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some...
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Millicent Garrett Fawcett
The history begins with effusive praise for Mary Wollstonecraft's efforts in the late 1700s on behalf of women, as well as for her sterling character (the latter being an act or recuperation). MGF
goes on...
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Elizabeth Heyrick
EH
enlarges on the terrible state of the Irish peasantry, with unemployment surpassing four million and many deaths from starvation. She comments on the Vagrancy Act of 21 June 1824; on the fact that prison...
