And many of the writings in the Monthly Repository exalted the role of women in the home, rocking the cradle and cultivating small minds, although some went so far as to envisage a future in which women were speaking with silver tongue in silken senatorial robes in the parliament of the noblest.23 In August 1832 Fox wrote a strong condemnation of the ribald dis- missal of Mary Smith's petition for [...] By intuition Harriet, the artist, had understood the wherefore; it was for Mill to work out the how: her rare knowledge of human nature, and perception and comprehension of moral and social influences shewed me (what I should never have found out in more than a very vague way for myself) the mode in which the conse- quences of the inferior position of women intertwine themselves with all the evils [...] Introduction xxiii article on the enfranchisement of women for the Westminster Review in 1851, prompted by the Seneca Falls meeting that launched the women's fight for the vote in the United States.40 And John Stuart Mill advocated the suffrage for women in a letter in the Leader.*1 In these years, however, their public voice was muted, in part because they were enjoying finally their lives fully [...] The fer- tility and aptness which distinguishes her practical conceptions of the adaptation of means to ends is such as I can never hope to rival." There is ample proof of Mill's claim, at least the part about authorship, in the handwriting of the surviving drafts in the Mill-Taylor Collection and elsewhere. [...] The women of Langham Place hired a carriage, covered it with 54 The Fawcetts were to be instrumental in the founding of Newnham College, Cam- bridge, in 1874, and she was to become the leader of the suffragists.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Introduction 8
- PART ONE: MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 38
- On Marriage 40
- On Marriage 55
- St. Simonism in London 58
- Stability of Society 62
- Bentham on Divorce 65
- Liberty and Divorce 69
- Comte on Women 71
- Married Women's Property 75
- Extracts 79
- PART TWO: DOMESTIC CRUELTY AND INJUSTICE 88
- The Suicide of Sarah Brown 90
- The Case of William Burn 94
- The Case of the North Family 98
- The Case of Anne Bird 103
- The Case of Mary Ann Parsons 108
- The Case of Susan Moir 115
- The Law of Assault 119
- Wife Murder 124
- Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy's Bill 129
- A Recent Magisterial Decision 136
- PART THREE: SOCIAL EQUALITY 138
- Women and Criticism 140
- The Education of Women 149
- Self-Education 154
- Equality in Russia 162
- The Contagious Diseases Acts 164
- Prostitution and Marriage 167
- The Contagious Diseases Acts 170
- Nursing 181
- Election to the London School Board 1 185
- Election to the London School Board 2 187
- Extracts 190
- PART FOUR: POLITICAL EQUALITY 196
- Women's Rights 198
- Enfranchisement of Women 215
- Political Rights 241
- PART FIVE: THE SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN 246
- Parliamentary Suffrage for Women 248
- The Exclusion of Women from the Franchise 250
- The Ladies' Petition 253
- The Admission of Women to the Electoral Franchise 271
- Propagandizing for the Cause 284
- Women's Suffrage 1 302
- Women's Suffrage 2 310
- Women's Suffrage 3 316
- Women's Suffrage 4 321
- Women's Rights as Preached by Women 329
- PART SIX: THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN 340
- Additional Reading 438
- Index 440
- A 440
- B 440
- C 440
- D 441
- E 441
- F 441
- G 441
- H 442
- I 442
- J 442
- K 442
- L 442
- M 443
- N 443
- O 444
- P 444
- Q 444
- R 444
- S 444
- T 445
- U 445
- V 445
- W 445
