Marriage: Love and Law exhibition catalogue - Flipbook - Page 62
WOMEN, PROPERTY,
EQUALITY
In order to develop the early NSW Colony, married women were
allowed to own property and operate businesses in their own
right. But by the mid-19th Century, the property rights of married
women had disappeared. Once married, a woman became
a ‘feme covert’. Any property that she had owned as a single
woman—or ‘feme sole’—was transferred to her husband.
44 W. Hatton
Lilian Faithfull wedding
to William Hugh Anderson
Black and white photograph
1898
National Museum of Australia,
2005.0005.0509
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