INDEX
Reading edition
Abduction, 107, 108
Adultery, a crime in India, 106
Anderson, Mrs. Garrett, 91
Ankers, Fru Ella, on divorce, 66, 67
Bacon, Lord, on marriage, 29
Bacon, Matthew, on wife beating, 44
Bailey, Sir William, 15
Ballad of John Hobbs, 24
Bentham, Dr. Ethel, on divorce, 59, 60
Blackstone, on wife beating, 44;
on mother’s right to custody of child, 72;
on seduction, 106
Blackwell, Dr. Elizabeth, her pioneer work in medical profession, 85-91
Branks, Scotch instrument of torture for women, 100
Breach of promise, 37, 38
Bridewell, whipping of women in, 96
Buller, Mr. Justice, his alleged ruling on wife beating, 45
Bumble, on husband’s control of wife, 43, 49
Children, custody of, 69-76
Clandestine marriages, 38
Coke, Lord, on abduction, 107
Confucius, on status of woman, 17
County Court, as divorce tribunal, 57
Cranmer, Thomas, on divorce, 54
Davies, Miss Llewellyn, on divorce, 59
Denman, Lord, on mother’s right to custody of child, 72
Dodd v. Dodd, separation orders, 55, 57
Dooms, 20, 21, 26, 27
Ducking-stool, punishment for common scolds, 100-101
Esher, Lord, his judgment on dominion of husband, 48
Ethelbert, Doom of, 21
Exeter, Bishop of, on seduction, 113
Fleet marriages, 35
Fry, Lord Justice, his judgment in Jackson case, 48
Geneva, University of, grants medical degree to Elizabeth Blackwell, 89
Gorell, Lord, on divorce reform, 55-58
Grinnell v. Wells, seduction, 111
Hale, Chief Baron, on witchcraft, 99
Halsbury, Lord, his judgment on dominion of husband, 47-49
Hardwicke, Lord, his Act to prevent clandestine marriages, 36
Hardy, Mrs., her hospital work in Serbia, 85
Hardy, Thomas, on wife selling, 22
Holloway, Dr., her hospital work in Serbia, 85
Holt, Chief Justice, on scolds, 100
Husband, right to sell wife, 22-26;
to beat, 44-46
Huxley, Thomas, on woman’s right to enter professions, 93
Illegitimate child, mother’s right to custody of, 74-76
Jackson v. Jackson, right of husband to control wife, 46-49
Johnson, Dr., on marriage, 33
Juvenal, on wives, 18
Lansdowne, Lord, on divorce, 57
Littledale, Mr. Justice, on custody of children, 73, 76
Magistrates, women as, 104
Mansfield, Lord, his judgment on slavery, 49
Mantalini, and earnings of wife, 41
Married Women’s Property Acts, 41, 42, 50, 102
Maternity rights, 76-78
Maule, Mr. Justice, on divorce, 54
Milton, John, 16, 17;
on divorce, 54
Montaigne, on freedom of divorce, 65
Morley, John, on stages of reform, 118
New South Wales, Affiliation law, 113
Nightingale, Florence, 91, 92
Norwegian divorce law, 67
Nursing, 92
Parry, John Humffreys, and Institution for Protection of Women, 108
Police, women as, 103, 104
Polygamy, 34
Praed, on wife beating, 46
Protection of Women and Children Bill, 109
Queen against Foxby, The, prosecution of common scold, 100, 101
Restell, Madame, a “female physician,” 87
Rex v. Greenhill, custody of children, 71-74
Roman Law, as to Woman, 18, 19, 27, 33, 66
Saxon Law, as to Woman, 19, 27, 33, 44
Scold, woman as common scold, 99-101
Scotch law of legitimacy, 75
Seduction, 106-114
Soltau, Dr., her hospital work in Serbia, 85
Steele, on wife beating, 45
Summary Jurisdiction Act (Married Women), 1895, 56
Talfourd, Serjeant, his Infant Custody Bill, 73
Webb, Dr. Helen, on divorce, 59, 61
Welsh Law of wife beating, 45
Westermarck, on marriage and the family, 31
Witchcraft, 99
Woolrych, Serjeant, on wife beating, 46
York, Archbishop of, on divorce, 56, 60