Talk:Women in the Victorian era

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What sources are there, if any? >< --Chezzie 14:26, 6 August 2006 (UTC) Chezzie

Prose needs to be cleaned up. -Emiao

I cleaned up the article, then made some changes.

[edit] An absurdity that just bounced out

"and he had the right to enforce this by a writ of habeas corpus" in Limited rights of married women section.

Now this is amusing for 3 reasons 1) habeas corpus is a writ relating to detained persons 2) "bring me my wifes body" invokes some fairly interesting sexual connotations most of which are not entirely in line with the alleged Victorian sacred temple concept - the remainder of the article makes this very funny. 3) its very hard to enforce ones will on somebody merely by having their physical presence.

I think what the author was intending on suggesting was that a husband could apply for an enforcement of "conjugal rights" - although IIRC so could a wife and the concept of "restoration of conjugal rights" still exists in some jurisdictions Paul Hjul 07:47, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV

This article doesn't strike me as having a particularly neutral POV.

"they were to be treated as saints, but saints that had no legal rights."

Niall Jackson 13:04, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Silly Vandalism

I removed the line: "can you actually change anything on this site? that's whack." as it it is unrelated to the topic and a form of petty vandalism —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Paul Hjul (talk • contribs) 08:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC).