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This account of the author's experience at the hands of an "imperfect state of law" in early 19th-century England makes a passionate plea for equal justice for women. Largely as a result of this book the passage of the Married Women's Property Act and reform of the English Marriage and Divorce Laws occurred some years later.Norton, Caroline Sheridan is the author of 'Caroline Norton's Defense English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century' with ISBN 9780915864881 and ISBN 0915864886.
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