1882 MYRA BRADWELL. Chicago Legal News - First Female Legal Paper in America - Suffrage & Women's Rights.

A very important large folio, full year of Myra Bradwell's Chicago Legal News. Bradwell was perhaps the most significant female legal figure in the 19th century, was the first female to edit a legal paper, and was embroiled in a near-decade long fight to become an attorney in Illinois, etc., 

Very rare on the market, with a significant emphasis on women's rights, suffrage, and legal issues surrounding divorce, women's ability to own property, etc., 

Interesting little article on Bradwell - - - HERE. 

Contents include an important article on Prohibition against Women Admitted to the Bar; On Divorce; On Women as Lawyers; The Valentine Scrip Case; Ticket Scalping / Scalpers; Emerging Legal Issues Relative to the Telegraph and Telegraphic Transmissions; The Guiteau Case and the Assassination of President James Garfield; Slander Laws; Illegal Relations of Secret Societies; On the Sale of Poisons; Extensive Interaction with Railroad Law; On Slander; On Perjury; The Civil Rights Bill; Rights of Infants; Plugging Silver Coins; Punishment of Jurors; On Running Trains at Excessive Speed; Slaughter Houses; Malicious Prosecution; Licenses for Dram Shops; The Labor Question; Libel; The Sale of Intoxicating Liquors by a Druggist; Insanity as a Cause for Divorce; The Burden of Proof in Insanity Cases; The Duty of Courts to Protect Infants; Illegitimate Children and Rights of Inheritance; Arrest of a Married Woman; Conveyance to Husband by Wife; On the Purchase of Necessaries by a Wife; Rights of Second Wife in an Estate; The Wife's Money and the Act of 1861; Wives and their Right to Purchase Property and Ability to Hold a Mortgage; Commitment of Children to Houses of Refuge; Gambling Contracts; Post-Nuptial Conveyance; False Imprisonment; On Flogging as a Punishment; Evidence of a Wife in Relation to Her Husband; Statements of Women; Indictment for Election Fraud; On the Rejection of Election Returns; On the Eligibility of Women for Office; Alimony and Divorce; Custody of Children after Divorce; Statutes against Remarriage; Fraud and Divorce; Proof of Cruelty and Divorce; On a Wife's Allowance; Counterfeiting National Bank Bills; Evidence of Intoxication; Murder and Insanity; Introduction of Liquor into Alaska; Criminal Executions; Bastardy; Body-Snatching; Pretended Bankruptcy of Infant Traders; Vicious Dogs and Owner Liability; etc. etc. etc. 

Bradwell, Myra [Ed.]. The Chicago Legal News. A Journal of Legal Intelligence. Containing Cases Decided in the Various United States Courts; The Supreme Court of Illinois, and Other States; Head Notes to Important Cases in Advance of their Publication in the Reports of the State Courts; Recent English Cases; Legal Information and General News. September 1881 to September 1882. Chicago. Chicago Legal News Company. 1882. 432pp.

A good copy, bound in half leather that's rubbed with tender boards, but generally solid, with light foxing.