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In 1884, an article on her written by Charlotte O'Conor Eccles appeared in the Weekly Irish Times. [7] She is the centrepiece of a narrative poem by Áine Miller, titled "Betty Sugrue - Hangwoman; The Woman From Hell", [8] and the main character in Declan Donnellan's 1989 play Lady Betty.
When Gilbert wrote The Princess in 1870, women's higher education was still an innovative, even radical concept. Girton College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge, was established in 1869. However, by the time Gilbert and Sullivan collaborated on Princess Ida in 1883, a women's college was a more established concept.
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Gilbert returned to his play in 1883, adapting it as one of his operas with Arthur Sullivan, entitled Princess Ida. When Tennyson published his poem, women's higher education was a novel, even radical concept. [5] When Gilbert wrote The Princess in 1870, women's higher education was still an innovative idea. [6]
In the 1870s, courts in the United States overruled the common-law principle that a husband had the right to "physically chastise an errant wife". [21] In the UK, the traditional right of a husband to inflict moderate corporal punishment on his wife in order to keep her "within the bounds of duty" was similarly removed in 1891.
Judicial corporal punishment in a women's prison, USA (ca. 1890) American colonies judicially punished in a variety of forms, including whipping, stocks, the pillory and the ducking stool. [66] In the 17th and 18th centuries, whipping posts were considered indispensable in American and English towns. [67]
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One exception is Journey Among Women (1977), a feminist imagining of what life was like for convict women. [35] Alexander Pearce, the infamous Tasmanian convict and cannibal, is the inspiration for The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008), Dying Breed (2008) and Van Diemen's Land (2009).