...law. As the Manchester feminist Lydia Becker (1827-90) said: What I most desire, is to see the married women of the middle classes stand on the same terms...nobodies, and if they act for themselves they lose caste. The reality of the law on property was sometimes made clear in unexpected ways, to people who had never...

...Wyndham ed. .. Curr«ptindenci- ;-f Ladv Lvttelton. 545. ConcInsion What I most desire, is to see married women of the middle classes stand on the same terms...classes and the highest aristocracy A great lady or a foctory woman are independent persons — personages— the women of the unddle classes are nohodies,...