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The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.

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By the English common law, her husband was her lord and master. He had the custody of her person, and of her minor children. He could 'punish her with astick no bigger than his thumb,' and she could not complain against him.

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Harriet Hanson Robinson

Harriet Hanson Robinson
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Born: February 8, 1825
Died: December 22, 1911 (aged 86)
Bio: Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, who worked as a bobbin doffer in a Massachusetts cotton mill as a child, was involved in a worker's strike, became a poet and author and played an important role in the women's suffrage movement in the United States.
Known for:
  1. Loom and Spindle (1898)
  2. Captain Mary Miller (1887)
  3. Massachusetts in the woman suffrage movement

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