Uncertain Unions and Broken Lives Marriage and Divorce in England, 1660-1857

Name: Uncertain Unions and Broken Lives Marriage and Divorce in England, 1660-1857
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ISBN: 9780192853080

ISBN-10: 0192853082

ISBN-13: 9780192853080

Edition: 1995

Authors: Lawrence Stone

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In the first part of this book, Lawrence Stone provides a series of case-studies which paint a vivid picture of how individuals coped with the manifold uncertainties of the law of marriage before the Marriage Act of 1753. There are stories of unwise courtship, prenuptial pregnancies, forced marriages, and bigamy, told in intimate, often ribald detail. The case-studies in the second part reveal how the break-up and dissolution of marriages was contrived before the first Divorce Act in 1857. Offering details of dramatic courtroom confrontations, secret negotiations, blackmail, and bribery, they provide sobering evidence of the huge gap between the enacted law and actual practice in early…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/23/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Stone teaches history at Princeton University. With his semi-Marxist perspective, he examines class relationships and ambitions as explanatory factors in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English history.