In the fifteen years following the admission of women to the legal professions in England, Wales and Scotland under the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, three important textbooks focusing on the law as it related to women were published in Great Britain. All three were written by recently qualified women lawyers, all of whom were among the first women in Great Britain to become solicitors or barristers. The three texts (in order of publication) were Women Under English Law (1924) by Maud Crofts, a solicitor, which contained a supplementary chapter, ‘Women Under Scots Law’ by Scottish barrister Margaret Kidd; Everyday Law for Women (1932) by the prominent barrister, Helena Normanton; and The Rights and Duties of Englishwomen: a Study in Law and Public Opinion (1934) by Manchester-based barrister, Erna Reiss. These therefore were the first published law textbooks to be written aboutlaws relating to women in Great Britain to be written by qualified women lawyers.
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