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Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen (Yale University Press, 2024) online. Murdoch, Lydia. Daily life of Victorian women (ABC-CLIO, 2013). Murray, Janet Horowitz. Strong-minded women: and other lost voices from nineteenth-century England (1982). O'Gorman, Francis, ed. The Cambridge companion to Victorian culture (2010) Perkin, Harold.
1.1 1800–1849. 1.2 1850–1874. 1.3 ... legally separated or widowed women, allows for civil marriage and gives married women the option to secure their right to ...
By 1800, young people generally selected their own partners. [12]: 28 The perception of marriage as a joining of two people in emotional intimacy meant that only the two people involved could judge each other's suitability for partnership; parents and families had little control over the matter. Young men continued to seek permission from ...
The married women's property acts gave women the right to bring lawsuits in their own name, but courts were reluctant to extend that right to the marriage relationship. [1] Between 1860 and 1913, courts narrowly interpreted marriage property acts so as to not allow spouses to sue each other for tortious acts. [1]
Women in the California gold rush, which began in Northern California in 1848, initially included Spanish descendants, or Californios, who already lived in California, Native American women, and rapidly arriving immigrant women from all over the world. At first, the numbers of immigrant women were scarce, but they contributed to their community ...
Convents in early modern Europe (1500–1800) absorbed many unmarried and disabled women as nuns. [1] France deemed convents as an alternative to prisons for unmarried or rebellious women and children. [2] It was also where young girls were educated as they waited to be married.
Women's political roles grew in the 20th century after the first woman entered the House in 1919. The 1945 election trebled their number to twenty-four, but then it plateaued out. The next great leap came in 1997, as 120 female MPs were returned. Women have since comprised around 20 per cent of the Commons.
Defining eye: women photographers of the 20th century: selections from the Helen Kornblum collection. The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1997. Newhall, Beaumont (1982). The History of Photography: from 1839 to the present. Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 978-0-87070-381-2. Rosenblum, Naomi (2010). A History of Women Photographers. Abbeville Press Publishers.