BROKEN LIVES: SEPARATION AND DIVORCE IN ENGLAND 1660-1857
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st. 1993
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. The last book in a trilogy of the subject. How the break-up and dissolution of marriages was contrived before the first Divorce Act in 1857. Individuals in their own words explain their actions and feelings about one another in dramatic courtroom confrontations, while behind the scenes they were conducting secret negotiations, and offering massive bribes to witnesses either to commit perjury or to hold their tongues. These stories offer astonishing insights into many hitherto unknown aspects of martial life and marital breakdown in early modern England. Dark blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xviii and 355 pages including index.
Minor foxing to top edge of text block else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
ISBN: 0198202547
Stock no. 1830424
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- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- SOCIOLOGY
