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English Laws for Women
IN
The Nineteenth Century.
By C. NORTON.
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It was a saying of Jeremy Bentham's, that, "if the
Poor had more Justice, they would need less Charity"—
If women had more Justice, they would have no need of
appeals to sympathy.
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LONDON: — MDCCCLIV.