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General
- Timeline of Legislation, Events, and Publications Crucial to the Development of Victorian Feminism
- The Birth Control Movement
- Women in the Empire: The British Obsession with Suttee
Important individuals
- Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts — Philanthropist (and the first woman to receive a peerage)
- Francis Power Cobbe
- Jeanie Senior (1828-77), The First Woman in Whitehall
- Josephine Butler, Campaigner against the Contagious Diseases Acts and for female education and suffrage
- Octavia Hill, social reformer and advocate for the poor
- Harriet Taylor Mill
- Margaret MacDonald, social reformer and feminist.
- “No Escape to be Had, No Absolution to be Got”: Divorce in the Lives and Novels of Charles Dickens and Caroline Norton
- Sarah Grand and the New Woman
- Margaret Harkness: A Late Victorian New Woman and Social Investigator
- Annie Besant (1847-1933)
- Barrett Browning confronts issues of women's work women's education and property rights, battered wives, and systemic prostitution in Aurora Leigh
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Langham Place feminist activists
Women's Suffrage -- The Battle for the Right to Vote
- Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-91)
- Harriet Taylor Mill’s “The Enfranchisement of Women” (1851)
- The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
- The Women's Social & Political Union
- The divide in Victorian feminism between women's public rights and their private ones
- 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 25 September 2019