Edge of tomorrow 2: The next generation of legal historians and Romanists. Collection of Contributions from the 2024 International Legal History Meeting of PhD Students
KapitolaThe Movement for Changing the Property Laws of Married Women in England, 1856–1870
Rok vydání: 2024https://doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P280-0628-2024-8
Abstrakt
In the middle of the 19th century, all property and earnings of a married woman belonged to her husband, including the property that a woman owned before entering the marriage. In 1856, Barbara Bodichon submitted the first petition to the Parliament of Great Britain that called for changing the property laws (Married Women’s Property Acts) and the long-lasting efforts to gain property rights and economic and legal independence for married women had begun. The paper will focus on the movement for changing the Property Laws of Married Women in England between the years 1856 and 1870, i.e. from the submission of the first petition by Barbara Bodichon to the first milestone – issuing the law that gave married women in England some property rights, Married Women’s Property Act 1870.
Klíčová slova
Women’s Rights; Property Rights; Victorian Great Britain; 1870; Barbara Bodichon; Married Women’s Property Act.
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