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The Married Women's Property Act, 1882: A Study Of Victorian Reform, Charles Norbert
The Married Women's Property Act, 1882: A Study Of Victorian Reform, Charles Norbert
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The major purpose of this thesis was to analyze and evaluate the development of the Married Women's Property Act of 1882. This Act exemplified the effort to improve the rights of women in nineteenth century Britain. Similar to the series of Reform Acts, the series of Married Women's Property Acts (1870, 1874, 1882 and 1893) represented the gradual extension of the tenets of Victorian liberalism to a broader portion of the English population. The unique feature of these Acts was that they marked the transcendence of liberalism over sexual barriers.
In order to understand the significance of these Acts it …