Do You Agree with the View That, by 1882, the Concept of the ‘Angel in the House’ Had Been Overturned?

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Do you agree with the view that, by 1882, the concept of the ‘angel in the house’ had been overturned? To an extent, I believe that the ‘Angel in the House’ concept had not been overturned by 1882. This is because, despite there being advancements in women’s rights such as the 1839 Custody of Infants Act, the 1857 Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, and the Married Women’s Property Acts of 1870 and 1882, there was still much evidence in society to prove that despite these positive changes, the ‘Angel in the House’ concept had not been fully overturned. It can be said that the ‘Angel in the House’ concept had been overturned by 1882, because according to a cartoon published on the front cover of the “Illustrated Police News”, in April 1891, divorce was now seen as the ‘norm’. The cartoon depicts 5 scenes in which couples are acting in accordance with the new divorce laws. Each of the scenes depict a negative image as a result of the divorce laws showing that although the law has been passed and aids in the advancement of women’s rights, the men (to which this newspaper would be geared) are quite against it. They believe that the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes act of 1857 would spoil the sanctity of marriage and result in marriages being entered into without thought, inner marital violence, marriages of convenience and women acting inappropriately (with a lack of respect) towards their husbands. This has shown that the laws have aided in the advancement of women’s rights however, many of the men, in particular the men who read the ‘Police News’ are not in favour of this change. Sources F and H disagree with the idea that the concept of ‘Angel in the House’ had been overturned by 1882 however, their limitations prove otherwise. The fact that in source F, Caroline Norton had even managed to publish such an article in 1854, shows that there were advancements in
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