Chapter I: Front Matter

THE LAW AND THE WOMAN

By

HIS HONOUR JUDGE

EDWARD ABBOTT PARRY

Author of “Dorothy Osborne’s Letters,” “Judgments in Vacation,” “What the Judge Saw,” “The Law and the Poor,” “Katawampus,” “Butter-Scotia,” etc.

“To which my Answer was, ‘The Lord mend those evils, and no remedy but Patience.’ ‘_By God, Donald_,’ said you, (I will use your own Phrase) ‘_we must help God to amend it_!’”

LORD REA’S accusation against DONALD RAMSEY, Esq. Rushworth’s _Historical Collections_, 1631, II. 114.

London C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd. 17 & 18 Henrietta Street, W.C. 1916

Butler & Tanner Frome and London

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

AUTHORITIES 7

INTRODUCTION 9

I ADAM AND EVE 15

II MARRIAGE 29

III HUSBANDS AND WIVES 40

IV DIVORCE 53

V MOTHERS’ RIGHTS 69

VI WOMAN AS A WORKER 79

VII WOMAN AS A WRONG-DOER 95

VIII LAWS FOR PROTECTION OF WOMAN 105

IX WOMAN AS A CITIZEN 115

INDEX 126

AUTHORITIES

Instead of using footnotes a short list of the main authorities referred to in each chapter is given for those who desire to study the subject more thoroughly.

CHAPTER I

“History of European Morals,” W. E. H. Lecky, 1890.

As to the sale of wives see “The Annual Register” and “Notes and
Queries.”

“Ancient Laws and Institutes of England,” Benjamin Thorpe, 1840.

“History of the Anglo-Saxons,” Sharon Turner, 1836.

“Womankind in Western Europe,” Thomas Wright, 1869.

CHAPTER II

“The History of Human Marriage,” Edward Westermarck, 1894.

“London in the Eighteenth Century,” Sir Walter Besant, 1902.

CHAPTER III

“The Law of Domestic Relations,” W. P. Eversley.

“A History of the Rod,” Rev. W. M. Cooper, 1869.

“Commentaries on the Laws of England,” Sir William Blackstone, 1765-9.

“Regina _v._ Jackson,” Law Reports, 1891. 1 Queen’s Bench, p. 671.

CHAPTER IV

“Report on the Royal Commission on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes,”
1912.

“Dodd _v._ Dodd,” Law Reports, 1906, Probate Division, p. 189.

CHAPTER V

“The Family,” Helen Bosanquet, 1906.

“Marriage,” Anne Besant, 1882.

“Rex _v._ Greenhill,” 1836. 4 Adolphus and Ellis, p. 624.

“Maternity Letters, collected by the Women’s Co-operative Guild,”
1915.

CHAPTER VI

“Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women,” Dr.
Elizabeth Blackwell, 1895.

“Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews,” Thomas Henry Huxley, 1871.

CHAPTER VII

“The Queen against Foxby,” 1703. 6 Modern Reports

CHAPTER VIII

“Grinnell _v._ Wells,” 1844. 7 Manning and Granger, p. 1033.

“Laws for the Protection of Women,” James Edward Davis, 1854.

“Legal Protection of Women,” W. Rulkoetter, Chicago, 1900.

“Report of Conference of the Criminal Law Amendment Committee,” 1913.

CHAPTER IX

“The Subjection of Women,” John Stuart Mill, 1869.

“Ought Women to learn the Alphabet?” T. W. Higginson, 1873.

“The French Revolution,” Thomas Carlyle.

“Women in Politics,” Charles Kingsley, 1869.