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Could women vote before the great reform act in england? if tehy could what where the conditions?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: In the middle ages women did have rights over property, money, children etc, but not the vote. What rights women did have were gradually eroded until by the beginning of the 19th century they had no rights at all - were not even recognised as being people in law. For instance, even a hundred years ago if a married woman was raped, the only recourse in law was for her husband to take civil action against the rapist for 'damage to property'. One of England's greatest composers - Dame Ethel Smythe (also a militant suffragette) could not become a member of the Royal Academy (although they wanted her to be one), as she was not, in law, a person. Last time in history women had the sort of rights we have these days, was in Celtic times - before the Romans wrecked it all. Women had full equality, right to vote for the leaders and in major clan decisions, right to stand in judgement in the law courts, and right to do pretty much anything they wanted.