[Female suffrage.] Collection of ten extracts from Victorian magazines on 'the woman question', the topics including domestic violence, factory labour, female employment, married women's property.

The ten items disbound from volumes from the collections of Robert Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), 1st Marquess of Crewe; the Cavendish Bentinck Library, London; and the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage. London. The first nine items in good overall condition, lightly aged and worn; the last in fair condition, with leaves separated, and chipping to extremities. The ten items are as follows: ONE. Henry Thomas Buckle - The influence of women on the progress of knowledge. On pp.396-407 of Fraser's Magazine, April 1858. 'A Discourse delivered at the Royal Institution, on Friday, the 19th of March, 1858.' Not published in pamphlet form until 1906. TWO. [Saturday Review] - Wife-beating. Article extracted from the Saturday Review, 16 May 1857. 3pp., 8vo. Laid down on two 8vo leaves. THREE. [North British Review] - Outrages on Women. | ART. VIII. - 1. The Times Newspaper. The Morning Post Newspaper. 1856 | 2. The Leader Weekly Journal. - "Our Civilisation." 1856. | 3. Sunbeams in the Cottage. By MARGARET MARIA BREWSTER. Edinburgh, 1856. Review extracted from the North British Review. Pp.233-256, July 1856. FOUR. Matilda M. Hays - Woman's work in the world. Letter 'To the Editor of the Daily News', dated 'London, May 3.' Extracted from the Daily News. 1p., 12mo., laid down on an 8vo leaf. FIVE. [North British Review] - ART. I. - The Communion of Labour; a Lecture on the Social Employments of Women. By MRS. JAMESON. London, 1856. | [.] | 8. Lectures to Ladies on Practical Subjects. Cambridge, 1855. Review extracted from the North British Review, February 1857, pp.291-338. SIX. [North British Review] - ART. II. - CAPABILITIES AND DISABILITIES OF WOMEN. | 1. Ismeer; or, Smyrna and its British Hospital in 1855. By a Lady. London. 1856. | 2. Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses. By a Lady Volunteer. London. 1856. | 3. The Communion of Labour. By Mrs. Jameson. London. 1856. Review extracted from the North British Review, [year and month?] pp.42-72. SEVEN. 'S. J. B.' and 'F. R. (Brompton)' - Medical Women. Letters from the two to the editor of an unnamed journal, with short note by the editor, under the heading 'SOCIETY. | Medical Women.' 1p., 8vo. Laid down on an 8vo leaf. EIGHT. H. R. Droop, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge - On the Property Rights of Married Women. [Read January 26, 1870.] Extracted from an unnamed journal [probably Papers read before the Juridical Society, vol.4]. No printer. [1870.] 26pp., 8vo. Paginated 619-644. NINE. [Anon.] - The Marriage Law of the Three Kingdoms. Extracted from the Cornhill Magazine, October 1867 No printer. 8pp., 8vo. Paginated 432-439. TEN. [Jessie Boucherett; Englishwoman's Review (New Series)] - I. FUTURE PLANS. Editorial extracted from the Englishwoman's Review (New Series), No. 1, January 1870. 3pp., 8vo.