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A Husband's Liabilities for the Support of His Wife [New York Tribune]

Swisshelm, Jane G. "A Husband's Liabilities for the Support of His Wife [New York Tribune]." New-York Saturday Press. 12 May 1860: 4.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
editorial
Abstract: 

Jane Swisshelm's letter to the editor is a women's rights argument about women's economic powerlessness. She frames her letter with a report of a legal battle regarding her husband's lack of financial support and his attempt, once she leaves him, to be refunded by merchants for the things he bought her.