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Women’s property-rights campaigners

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Women’s property-rights campaigners

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Married Women’s Property Act receives royal assent

📅 18 August 1882

The law expanded married women’s legal control over earnings and property after decades of campaigning. Reform altered a basic institution of family law without ending unequal pay or women’s...