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Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be — Annie Besant

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Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be

Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be: A Plea for Reform

Annie Besant hacia 1897
byAnnie Besant

A plea for the reform of English marriage law written from her own experience: it denounces the legal disappearance of the married woman, absolute paternal custody and the indissolubility of the bond, and proposes divorce by consent and equal rights over children. An early text of British legal feminism.

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Authorship note

A Freethought Publishing Company pamphlet, 1879; 2nd ed. 1882.

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  • Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be

    Project Gutenberg, 2014

    #47000.

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  • Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be

    Freethought Publishing Company, Londres, 1879

Other works by Annie Besant

Sources

  • Open Library, autora Annie Wood Besant (OL16933A): registros de obras y ediciones con ISBN consultados el 2026-10-22; primeras ediciones digitalizadas en Internet Archive.

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