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General
- Timeline of Legislation, Events, and Publications Crucial to the Development of Victorian Feminism
- Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts — Philanthropist (and the first woman to receive a peerage)
- Jeanie Senior (1828-77), The First Woman in Whitehall
- Josephine Butler, Campaigner against the Contagious Diseases Acts and for female education and suffrage
- Women in the Empire: The British Obsession with Suttee
Women's Suffrage -- The Battle for the Right to Vote
- Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-91)
- The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
- The Women's Social & Political Union
- Hastings, England, and the Battle for Women's Right to Vote
Other Legislation
- Child Custody Act, 1839
- The Married Woman's Property Act
- Matrimonial Causes Act (legally separated wife given right to keep what she earns), 1857
- Contagious Diseases Acts, 1864, 1866, 1869
- First Married Woman's Property Act, 1870
- Voting Act (Enfranchised all men over 21, and all women over 30), 1918
- Equal Franchise Act (Equal voting rights for both men and women), 1928
Last modified 23 April 2008