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Norway: Women are allowed to teach in the rural elementary school system (in the city schools in 1869). [23] New Zealand: Married women allowed to own property (extended in 1870). [9] United States, New York: New York's Married Women's Property Act of 1860 passed. [58] Married women granted the right to control their own earnings. [28]
Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 – May 9, 1936) [1] was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. She was one of America's best selling authors during her writing career and had three silent films adapted from her novels.
She was one of America's best-known women illustrators in the 1870s and 1880s. She illustrated stories and novels by other authors including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Louisa May Alcott, Bret Harte, and others. [6] [7] Foote exhibited her work at The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago ...
Judicial corporal punishment is the infliction of corporal punishment as a result of a sentence imposed on an offender by a court of law, including flagellation (also called flogging or whipping), forced amputations, caning, bastinado, birching, or strapping.
Johnson signs Public Law 90-130, lifting grade restrictions and strength limitations on women in the United States military. It amended 10 USC, eliminating the 2% maximum on enlisted women, and allowed female officers to be promoted to colonel or higher. [citation needed] Maryland: In Erie Exchange v.
Birching in a women's prison, US (c. 1890) 1839 caricature by George Cruikshank of a school flogging Edmund Bonner punishing a heretic in Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563) It was the most common school and judicial punishment in Europe up to the mid-19th century, when caning gained increasing popularity.
It put the rights of women to a university education on the national political agenda which eventually resulted in legislation to ensure that women could study at university in 1877. [124] Girton College opens as the first residential college for women in the United Kingdom. [125] 1870: United States The first woman is admitted to Cornell ...
Hughes's stated purpose in these books is "to show that Victorian children did not have such a dull time as is usually supposed". Her books are a valuable source on women's education and women's work in the late Victorian period ; in particular, A London Girl of the 1880s provides an unparalleled portrait of life in a Victorian women's college.