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Married Women's Property Acts

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Married Women's Property Acts

Two acts passed in Britain, in 1870 and 1882, granting women basic rights in the division of property between husband and wife. Until 1870 common law decreed that a wife's property, including money and shares, passed to her husband. The first act allowed women to retain their earnings and the second act allowed women to retain the property they owned at the time of their marriage.
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Long after the passage of married women's property acts beginning in the 1840s and the passage of married women's earnings statutes later in the nineteenth century, married women's legal and political identities continued to be defined and limited by their marital status.
In the shadow of marriage: single women and the legal construction of ... by Dubler, Ariela R. / Yale Law Journal
These rights, eventually codified as married women's property acts in almost every state, were tremendously important to the progression toward equality for women.
Man and Wife in America: A History by Grossman, Joanna L. / Stanford Law Review
Stange concentrates on locating Chopin's text in the context of the Married Women's Property Acts, contrasting liberal Kentucky, Edna Pontellier's home state, with Louisiana and also drawing parallels between Chopin's lexis and narrative momentum and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 'self-ownership rhetoric' (p.
Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women by Beer, Janet / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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