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Living in sin : cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England /
"Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. 'Common-law' marriages did not have any legal basis, so the Victorian courts had to wrestle with unions that resembled marriage in ever...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester New York : New York :
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
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| Colección: | Gender in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cohabitation, illegitimacy, and the law in England, 1750-1914
- Violence and cohabitation in the courts
- Affinity and consanguinity
- Bigamy and cohabitation
- Adulterous cohabitation
- The 'other Victorians' : the demimonde and the very poor
- Cross-class cohabitation
- Radical couples, 1790-1850
- Radical couples, 1850-1914.