By Caroline Sheridan Norton
Caroline Norton (1808-1877) was once a Victorian writer and campaigner for social reform, specially reform of women's criminal rights. during this lucidly written account Norton describes how upon marriage in 1855 girls grew to become legally 'non-existent': they can no longer deliver situations to courtroom; they can now not input right into a agreement; they can now not instigate a divorce and their possessions, gains and any bequests made to them instantly grew to become their husband's estate. Norton explains how this loss of felony autonomy affected girls in the event that they turned estranged from their husbands, utilizing her personal studies for representation and recommending alterations which might increase women's felony place. released in 1855 while Parliament was once debating the topic of divorce reform, this quantity indicates the felony place of girls at present. It presents the evaluations of latest legislators in aid and competition at the problems with women's felony rights and reform of divorce legislation.
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Extra resources for A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth’s Marriage and Divorce Bill
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No doubt, in numberless instances, condonation is possible. So far we will grant Lord Cranworth's argument. A man may yield to the temptation of passion, who yet at heart loves and respects his wife; and feels, after his delusion is over, a real shame and repentance. Nor is want of chastity the only sin in the world;—a woman who is a chaste wife may fill her husband's days with unendurable bitterness; and a man who has lapsed in his observance of the marriage vow, may nevertheless be a kindly husband and father, with whom reconcilement would be a safe and blessed generosity.
You have not been guilty of incest. There is no earthly reason she should not wait patiently till you are satiated with your present course of life, and gladly welcome you back. There is nothing to prevent her pardoning the desertion and persecution of years; even if you have libelled her reputation, and endeavoured to get rid of her by divorce; by accusing her of the sin which at heart you knew she was not guilty of, and you are. If she were but guilty, and proved so,—then, 57 indeed, all were easy!
She is to apply for her divorce to the judicial tribunal: to that Chancellor who speaks of an adulterous husband as being " a " little profligate:" to that House of Lords which has entertained feminine applications with so much jealousy and reluctance, that there have been but four cases (two of them cases of incest,), in which the wife's petition for divorce has ever been granted. With these judges, and not with the wife, rests the decision whether she has refused that indulgence which ought to be a part of her nature, and is the principal charm of her sex, D 2 36 —or whether, wronged, outraged, and forsaken, she has borne to the last verge of endurance before she appealed to the law!
