Married Women’s Property Acts

…forward the passage of the Married Women’s Property Act. In 1866, cooperating with Emily Davies, she proposed a plan for the extension of university education to women, and the first small experiment, a college at Hitchin, developed into Girton College, Cambridge, to which Bodichon gave liberally of her time and…

…States in 1839 and in England in 1857) divided property within the marital unit by assigning it to one or the other spouse. The examples could easily be multiplied.