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Oscar Wilde’s wife allowed him 3 pounds a day while he lived in Paris, years after his horribly publicized societal downfallZ Why was his wife, a woman, allowed to be in charge of finances in the late 1890s?

by /u/nueoritic-parents in /r/AskHistorians

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