Enlightenment or Self Preservation?

The married womens property act 1870

Why did an entirely male Victorian Parliament begin giving married women control over their own property? The answer was not simply enlightenment. A family story from Murder at the Docks reveals the complicated relationship between women, money, debt and responsibility.

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