English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1439 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Woman Question
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The idea
The woman question debated women's suffrage, property, legal and marriage rights, and whether women's private virtue belonged in public life. The anchor notes that a married woman's property belonged to her husband until the eighteen seventies and eighties, and it names Jane Eyre and Mill's essay.
In practice
Rights, property, the public sphere.
Where people slip
Novels as well as essays took part.
Your place on the trail
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