| CHAP. | | PAGE |
| | Preface | [vii] |
| I. | Ancient History And British Women | [1] |
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| II. | The Modern Bases of Privilege | [15] |
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| III. | Royal Women | [27] |
| | Queens Consort | [27] |
| | Queens Regnant | [28] |
| | Queens Regent | [33] |
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| IV. | Noblewomen | [35] |
| | They paid Homage | [36] |
| | They received Homage | [37] |
| | They held Courts Baron | [37] |
| | They held by Military Service | [40] |
| | They could be Knights | [42] |
| | They could inherit Public Offices | [42] |
| | They could be High Sheriff | [43] |
| | They could be Earl Marshal | [45] |
| | They could be High Constable, High Steward, High Chamberlain | [47] |
| | They could be Champion, Governor of Royal Castles | [48] |
| | They could be appointed to various offices | [51] |
| | They could act as Femes Soles when married | [51] |
| | They had the Cure of Churches | [53] |
| | As Peeresses summoned to Parliament in person or in proxy | [53] |
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| V. | County Women | [60] |
| | Could be Freeholders | [61] |
| | Could act as Femes Soles when married | [61] |
| | Could hold by Military Tenure | [62] |
| | Paid and received Homage | [63] |
| | Could present to Churches | [63] |
| | Could hold Motes and attend Motes | [64] |
| | Could be Suitors at County Courts, Pares, Judges or Jury | [64] |
| | Could elect Knights of the Shire | [67] |
| | Could elect Members of Private Boroughs | [69] |
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| VI. | Freewomen | [77] |
| | Could be Members of Guilds | [79] |
| | Could have Guilds of their own | [83] |
| | Were free of the City of London | [84] |
| | Were free in other Boroughs | [86] |
| | Could be Members of Corporation | [90] |
| | Could vote for Members of Parliament | [94] |
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| VII. | The Long Ebb | [99] |
| | The Errors of Sir Edward Coke | [99] |
| | A Believer in Coke’s Views | [107] |
| | Protesting Women | [112] |
| | Anne Clifford | [112] |
| | Mary Astell’s Protest | [124] |
| | Mary Wolstonecroft Godwin | [127] |
| | Legal Cases decided in their favour | [128] |
| | The Reform Bill of 1832 | [136] |
| | The Reform Bill of 1867 | [139] |
| | Chorlton v. Lings | [140] |
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| VIII. | The Turn of the Tide | [146] |
| | Something has been done | [147] |
| | Municipal Franchise—School Boards | [148] |
| | Married Women’s Property Acts | [149] |
| | Lady Sandhurst’s Case | [150] |
| | What a Woman can do | [152] |
| | Women and the Universities | [155] |
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| IX. | Other Women | [159] |
| | The Test of Civilisation | [162] |
| | Labour the basis of Property | [165] |
| | The Unrecorded Increment of Women’s Labour | [166] |
| | The Duality of Humanity | [176] |
| | The Woman God’s Fellow-worker | [178] |
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| | Appendix | |
| | Eldest Daughters | [180] |
| | The Countess Lucy | [180] |
| | Women’s Service | [180] |
| | Women’s Guilds | [181] |
| | Free Kent | [181] |
| | The Learned Selden | [181] |
| | Sir Edward Coke | [181] |
| | Judge or Jury | [182] |
| | Physical Force Argument | [182] |
| | Women and the Universities | [182] |
