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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...
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Frances Power Cobbe
The essay provides the text of the bill she had drafted by Alfred D. Hill
before she threw her weight instead behind an amendment introduced by Lord Penzance
in the Lords
which was able to...
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27 May 1878: The Matrimonial Causes Act was amended so...
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27 May 1878
The Matrimonial Causes Act was amended so that magistrates could order a marital separation and the payment of an allowance to abused wives in cases of spousal assault.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2024.
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Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
