'No status of their own' | Women and the Law in the Nineteenth Century

In this video Dr Stella Moss introduces some of the legal restrictions women, particularly married women, faced in the nineteenth century and how opposition to these laws fed into calls for the vote in the latter half of the century.

[GeeJorSunpit]

Wow this is really horribly sad but very interesting, thankyou very much!

[thehowlingmisogynist]

Nope - married women were not 'owned' by their husbands in the common law sense. The concept of Coverture placed the wife under her husband's protection. The 'Dowry' or property of the wife was to be managed responsibly by her husband - it did not become his property. It was marital property. On becoming a widow or via divorce, the Dowry reverted to the woman with all the legal rights involved.