Caroline Norton's Defense: English Laws for Women in the 19th Century

by Caroline Sheridan Norton

Book Overview

This account of the author's experience at the hands of an "imperfect state of law" in early 19th-century England makes a passionate plea for equal justice for women. Largely as a result of this book the passage of the Married Women's Property Act and reform of the English Marriage and Divorce Laws occurred some years later.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915864886
• ISBN13: 9780915864881
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"