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Women: The Role Of Women During The Regency Era

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The Role of Women during the Regency Era Money and Marriage Education and Accomplishments Entailment playing classical music on the piano singing dancing Drawing know different languages recite poems painting... on a canvas or on furniture embroidering Women were expected to marry at an early age... any later than 20 years old and she was considered a burden on her family Divorce... was looked down uopn, only rich could afford, gave men the opportunity to take custody of their children and ban his ex-wife from seeing them, The Regency Era was male dominant: women were not allowed to make wills, men took over all property a woman owned before the marriage, and women were treated as badly as slaves Marriage settlement: A women would have a set

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