num_pages: 208
description: 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.
language: English
title: Caroline Norton's Defense: English Laws for Women in the 19th Century
titlecomplete: Caroline Norton's Defense: English Laws for Women in the 19th Century
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 14
publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers