The Rights of Women by Anthony Trollope 1862
Channel: Age of Enlightenment
Date: 2023-10-29

We all know that the subject which appears above as the title of this chapter is a very favourite subject in America. It is, I hope, a very favourite subject in England also, and I am inclined to think has been so for many years past. The rights of women, as contradistinguished from the wrongs of women, has perhaps been the most precious of the legacies left to us by the feudal ages. How amidst the rough darkness of old Teuton rule women began to receive that respect which is now their dearest right, is one of the most interesting studies of history. It came, I take it, chiefly from their own conduct. 
North America Vol 1 1862 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1865