The Helga J. Ingraham Memorial Library’s collections include rare books in addition to archives.  Small press publications of local interest inform staff in describing and providing access to documents.  The October 20th entry in the Litchfield Book of Days authored by George C. Boswell and published in 1899 focuses on Tapping Reeve:

Judge Reeve was the first eminent lawyer in this country who dared to arraign the common law of England for its severity and refined cruelty in cutting off the natural rights of married women, and placing their property as well as their persons at the mercy of their husbands, who might squander or hoard it up, at their pleasure… All the mitigating changes in our jurisprudence which have been made to redeem helpless woman from the barbarities of her legalized tyrant may fairly be tracked to the author of the first American treatise on The Domestic Relations. –Holister’s Connecticut