It contains All to which we have any Need to Object. Literature.
"The Lawe's Resolution of Woman's Rights." Inquiries as to its
Author. Probability points to Sir John Doderidge. The Law, for
Single Women, of Inheritance. Offices Open. Right to Vote, and Lady
Packington. Sheriff of Westmoreland. Lady Rous. Henry VIII. and
Lady Anne Berkeley. As Constable, and Overseer of the Poor. Female
Voter in Nova Scotia. Law relating to Seduction: its Profanity. The
French Law, as summed up by Legouvé. Woman's Opinion of this Law.
Objections. Laws concerning Married Women. Impossibility of
Divorce, from Hopeless Insanity. Instances where _Men_ have taken
the Law into their own Hands. Impossibility of Woman's ever doing
this. Marriage of a Minor. A Wife loses _all_ her Rights. Satire in
a London Court. Truth of this. Consequent Unwillingness of the
Honest Poor to Marry, and of Single Women of Rank to relinquish
Power. Freedwomen at the South. The Descendant of Morgan the
Buccaneer. Need of Equity. May make a Will by Permission. Nutriment
of Infants. The Law resists Maternal Influence, and denies Natural
Authority. Word not binding. Gifts Illegal. Indictments in the
Husband's Name. Divorces: only Three ever granted to Women. The
Widow recovers her Clothes and Jewels, but need not bury her
Husband. Christian on Suffrage. Moderate Correction. Property-laws.
The Hon. Mrs. Norton. Hungarian Freedom. Right to Vote. Experience
in America. Parisian Milliner. "Union is Robbery." The Heiress.
Longevity of the Wife. Woman discouraged from Labor by the
Influence of the Laws of Property. Sexual Legislation thoroughly
Immoral. Man's Adultery even a more Serious Evil than Woman's, so
far as State Morals and Interests are concerned. Canton Glarus.
"Courts have never gone that Length." Debate on the New Divorce
Bill. Man's Fidelity considered an Imbecility. The Compliments of
the Law. The Husband's Vigilance. Duplicity the Natural Result of
Slavery. The Right of Suffrage. Objections Answered. The Abstract
Right and the Practical Question. Suffrage to be limited by
Education, not Money nor Sex. The "Sad Sisterhood." Woman has never
had a Representative. Her Suffrage would put an End to Three
Classes of Laws. Harris _vs._ Butler. Delicate Matters to be
Discussed. The Duke of York's Trial. John Stuart Mill's Opinion.
Dedication of his Essay on Liberty. Women of Upsal. On Juries. Miss
Shedden. Russell on Female Evidence. Fate of the "Bulwarks of the
English Constitution." Power of Women not Disputed while it was
dependent on Property. It should depend on Humanity. Louis XIV. and
the Fish-women. Pauline Roland and Madame Moniot. Men borrow the
Suffrages of Women. Saxon Witas. Abbess Hilda. Council at
Benconceld. King Edgar's Charter. Abbesses in Parliament. Peeresses
in Parliament. East-India Stockholders. Stockholders in Banks.
Association for the Promotion of Social Science. Mrs. Mill's
Article. Florence Nightingale's Evidence. Petition to Parliament,
and its Signers. The New Divorce Bill. Buckle's Lecture. Canadian
Changes. Inconsistencies. Canadian Women as Voters. Pitcairn's
Island. pp. 287-341.