Gave mothers the right to custody of their children under 7 (political writing produce by Caroline Norton, when realised she lost her children, due to George loosing court case to Mabourne)
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1857 Divorce Matrimonial Act
Allowed divorce to happen through the law courts. Husband had to prove adultery, wife had to prove adultery and either bigamy, ******, **********, cruelty or long term desertion as well. Caroline Norton.
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1864-66-69 Contagious Diseases Acts
Allowed police to arrest prostitutes and order them to undergo an internal examination in all garrison towns.
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1870-1882 Married Women's Property Acts
Allowed women to keep £200 in earnings and personal property, and then allowed women to keep all property and money brought into the marriage. (Women begun to organise themselves into pressure groups, Barbara Bodichon began the campaign
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1885 Criminal Amendment Act
Age consent of raised from 13-16
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1886 Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act
Contagious disease act repealed due to Ladies National Association headed by Josephine Butler
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1891 The Jackson case
Appeal court ruled that a husband had no right to force his wife to live with him.
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1869 LNA
Josephine Butler forms the Ladies National Association
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Caroline Norton
Campaigned against her husband, campaigned for custody of children act 1839, + divorce and matrimonial causes act of 1857
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Millicent Garret Fawcett
President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS 1897-1919); formed a non-party suffrage society with Lydia Becker; founded Newnham women's college 1871
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Mrs Jackson
1884 Matrimonial Causes Act denied a husband the right to lock up his wife if she refused to have sex with him
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Barbara Leigh Smith (later Bodichon)
1854 began the campaign to change the laws on property. +formed women suffrage committee 1866
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Lydia Becker
Formed (with Emily Davis +Elizabeth Wolstenholme) Manchester Women's Suffrage Committee in 1867 became its secretary. supported votes for single women, resigned from the Married Women's Committee 1874.
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Josephine Butler
1869 Formed/head of Ladies' National Association (LNA), campaigned for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts
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Louisa Twining
formed the Workhouse Visiting Society 1859
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Lily Maxwell
First woman to be put on the register of electors
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1859
The workhouse visiting society funded
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1869 Municipal Franchise Act
allows unmarried women ratepayers to vote in municipal elections
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1870 Educational Act
allows women rate payers to vote for and serve on the new school boards
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1975
First women elected to serve on Poor Law Boards as guardians of the poor
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1881
Fisrt Women's Liberal Assciaciation formed in Bristol: 1887 women's Liberal Federation
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1883
Primrose League established
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1894 Local Government Act
gave married women the right to vote in local elections and allowed women to stand for election as municipal councillors
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1869
single+ widowed women who paid rates were given the right to vote in local elections
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1894 Local Government Act
Married women were given the right to vote
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1870 Educational Act
allowed women to stand for election to school boards, Liberal MP provided elementary education for all:School Boards
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1875
first woman to be elected to be a Poor law guardian.
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John Stuart Mill
1865 Elected to the house of commons, was in favour in giving women the vote,
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George Norton
Refused to divorce Caroline Norton, and prevented his wife from seing her children. Lost a court case against Lord Melbourne.
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John Ruskin
The essayist who picked up a theme of the innate goodness and gentleness of women as wives.
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Henry Fawcett
1866 with JS Mill presented 1st petition (Bodichon +Women's Suffrage Committee) to parliament
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Richard Pankhurst
1870 drafted the first women's suffrage bill, introduced a private member's bill, passed 1st reading however defeated by the liberal PM Gladstone
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Faithful Begg
A conservative MP,proposed Women's Suffrage Bill in 1897 with 250,000 signatures, however the bill faced government opposition.
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1869 Municipal Franchise Act
allows unmarried women ratepayers to vote in municipal elections
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1867 2nd Reform Act
enfranchises skilled working men in towns, at same address 12 months
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1884 3rd Reform Act
to enfranchise men in rural areas
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1887
Women's Liberal Foundation established: all the different association came together:500 delegates operated separately from men, to promote the conservative party
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1884
Women acquire independent legal status
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1906
Liberal party win election landslide
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1857 Divorce Matrimonial Act
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Allowed divorce to happen through the law courts. Husband had to prove adultery, wife had to prove adultery and either bigamy, ******, **********, cruelty or long term desertion as well. Caroline Norton.
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