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Women’s status in Victorian England
In the 19th century, during the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901, most women lived in a state little better than slavery. Women had to obey men. Most women had little choice but to marry and upon doing so everything they owned, inherited and earned automatically belonged by law to their husband. Every man had the right to force his wife into sex and childbirth. He could take her children without reason and send them to be raised elsewhere. Women's purpose was to serve men by marrying and reproducing, by raising children, looking after the sick. If a woman was unhappy with her situation there was, almost without exception, nothing she could do about it. Except in extremely rare cases, a woman could not obtain a divorce and, until 1891, if she ran away from an intolerable marriage the police could capture and return her, and her husband could imprison her.
