[Female suffrage.] Collection of ten extracts from Victorian magazines on 'the woman question', the topics including domestic violence, factory labour, female employment, married women's property.

Author: 
Jessie Boucherett; Henry Thomas Buckle; Matilda M. Hays; H. R. Droop [women's suffrage; Victorian domestic violence; factory labour; female employment; married women's property]
Publication details: 
London and Edinburgh: Fraser's Magazine; Saturday Review; North British Review; Daily News; Cornhill Magazine; Englishwoman's Review. Between 1856 and 1870.
£320.00
SKU: 16264

The ten items disbound from volumes from the collections of Robert Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), 1st Marquess of Crewe; the Cavendish Bentinck Library, London; and the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage. London. The first nine items in good overall condition, lightly aged and worn; the last in fair condition, with leaves separated, and chipping to extremities. The ten items are as follows: ONE. Henry Thomas Buckle - The influence of women on the progress of knowledge. On pp.396-407 of Fraser's Magazine, April 1858. 'A Discourse delivered at the Royal Institution, on Friday, the 19th of March, 1858.' Not published in pamphlet form until 1906. TWO. [Saturday Review] - Wife-beating. Article extracted from the Saturday Review, 16 May 1857. 3pp., 8vo. Laid down on two 8vo leaves. THREE. [North British Review] - Outrages on Women. | ART. VIII. - 1. The Times Newspaper. The Morning Post Newspaper. 1856 | 2. The Leader Weekly Journal. - "Our Civilisation." 1856. | 3. Sunbeams in the Cottage. By MARGARET MARIA BREWSTER. Edinburgh, 1856. Review extracted from the North British Review. Pp.233-256, July 1856. FOUR. Matilda M. Hays - Woman's work in the world. Letter 'To the Editor of the Daily News', dated 'London, May 3.' Extracted from the Daily News. 1p., 12mo., laid down on an 8vo leaf. FIVE. [North British Review] - ART. I. - The Communion of Labour; a Lecture on the Social Employments of Women. By MRS. JAMESON. London, 1856. | [...] | 8. Lectures to Ladies on Practical Subjects. Cambridge, 1855. Review extracted from the North British Review, February 1857, pp.291-338. SIX. [North British Review] - ART. II. - CAPABILITIES AND DISABILITIES OF WOMEN. | 1. Ismeer; or, Smyrna and its British Hospital in 1855. By a Lady. London. 1856. | 2. Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses. By a Lady Volunteer. London. 1856. | 3. The Communion of Labour. By Mrs. Jameson. London. 1856. Review extracted from the North British Review, [year and month?] pp.42-72. SEVEN. 'S. J. B.' and 'F. R. (Brompton)' - Medical Women. Letters from the two to the editor of an unnamed journal, with short note by the editor, under the heading 'SOCIETY. | Medical Women.' 1p., 8vo. Laid down on an 8vo leaf. EIGHT. H. R. Droop, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge - On the Property Rights of Married Women. [Read January 26, 1870.] Extracted from an unnamed journal [probably Papers read before the Juridical Society, vol.4]. No printer. [1870.] 26pp., 8vo. Paginated 619-644. NINE. [Anon.] - The Marriage Law of the Three Kingdoms. Extracted from the Cornhill Magazine, October 1867 No printer. 8pp., 8vo. Paginated 432-439. TEN. [Jessie Boucherett; Englishwoman's Review (New Series)] - I. FUTURE PLANS. Editorial extracted from the Englishwoman's Review (New Series), No. 1, January 1870. 3pp., 8vo.