“‘A good Husband would not desire the Power of Horse-whipping, confining, Half-starving his Wife, or squandering her Estate; a bad Husband should not be allowed it.’ So wrote Sarah Chapone in her Hardships of the English Laws in Relations to Wives, published in 1735. A remarkable but long unremarked work, Chapone’s text has started to receive attention from scholars interested in feminist political philosophy and women’s writings. Readers interested in crime and the courts – and the representation of crime in the media – might well turn to Chapone’s work, too …” (more)
[Krista J Kesselring, Legal History Miscellany, 11 October]
First posted 2020-10-15 05:23:44
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