CHAPTER VII

WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN ENGLAND

Single women have always had private rights--But males preferred in inheritance--Examples--Power of parents--Husband and wife--Wife completely controlled by husband--He could beat her and own all her property--Recent abrogation of the husband's power--Divorce--Jeremy Taylor and others on duty of women to bear husband's sins with meekness--Injustice of the present law of divorce--Rape and the age of legal consent--Progress of the rights to an education--Women in the professions--Woman suffrage--Sources