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  • 'The first point in the women's charter' The women's movement and legal reform
  • 'The virtual slavery of marriage' The common law and married women
  • 'The guardian of the weak and unprotected' Equity and married women
  • 'The germs of an effective movement' Feminism in the 1850s
  • 'The wind out of our sails' Property-law reform and reform of the divorce law
  • 'The peculiar character of the modern world' The setting of the 1860s
  • 'The burthen of proof' The great debate on reform
  • 'The legislative abortion' The Married Women's Property Act of 1970
  • 'What an emancipation is this!' The Married Women's Property act of 1882
  • 'The equality of two' After the acts
  • Petition for reform of the Married Women's Property Law presented to parliament 14 march 1856
  • Provisions relating to Women's Property in the Divorce Act of 1857
  • Members of the executive committee of the Married Women's Property Committee, 1868-1882
  • Married Women's Property Act 1870
  • Married women's property bills in Parliament, 1857-1882
  • Legislation relating to Married Women's Property.