Married Women's Property Act 1882
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The Married Women's Property Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c.75) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly altered English law regarding the property rights granted to married women, allowing them to own and control their own property.
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Further reading
- Amy Louise Erickson, Women and Property in Early Modern England,(London: Routeledge, 1993).
- Dorothy Stetson, A Woman's Issue: The Politics of Family Law Reform in England, (London: Greenwood, 1982).
- Mary Lyndon Shanley, Feminism, Marriage, and Law in Victorian England, 1850-1895, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989).
- Ben Griffin, "Class, Gender, and Liberalism in Parliament, 1868-1882: The Case of the Married Women's Property Acts," The Historical Journal, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Mar., 2003), pp. 59–87.
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