Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The final cause of woman Frances Power Cobbe; 2. How to provide for superfluous women Jessie Boucherett; 3. Education considered as a profession for women Rev. G. Butler; 4. Medicine as a profession for women Sophia Jex-Blake; 5. The teaching of science James Stuart; 6. On some historical aspects of family life Charles H. Pearson; 7. The property disabilities of a married woman, and other legal effects of marriage Herbert N. Mozley; 8. Female suffrage, considered chiefly with regard to its indirect results Julia Wedgwood; 9. The education of girls, its present and its future Elizabeth C. Wolstenholme; 10. The social position of women in the present age John Boyd-Kinnear.

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A compilation of essays written by prominent Victorian feminists and their supporters discussing issues of inequality, first published in 1869