The end of 19th century marked a time of change and reform for woman. Turning away from the cultivated role of wife,mother, and submissive and toward that of worker respected equal. Left many questioning the roles that society had previously cast for them.
Women were also entirely shut out of political activity. Women were not allowed to vote, and in Great Britain, women were so bound to their husbands that under 19th-century British common law, they were barely considered people at all.
