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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809589503321

Autore

Perkin Joan

Titolo

Women and marriage in nineteenth-century England / / Joan Perkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Ill., : Lyceum Books, 1989

ISBN

1-134-98563-0

1-134-98564-9

1-280-32355-8

0-203-40195-6

0-203-33117-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Disciplina

306.81088042

346.4201/5

Soggetti

Married women - Great Britain - History

Domestic relations - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-325).

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; WOMEN AND THE LAW; A FAMILY ON THE THRONE; ONE LAW FOR THE RICH; THE GLORIOUS LICENCE OF A WIFE; THE PROVOKED WIFE; ANOTHER LAW FOR THE POOR; A LIFE OF WILLING SACRIFICE; ROUGH AND READY WOMEN; THE COUNTRY WIFE; THE CRUSADE AGAINST MARRIAGE; THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE; A LIFE OF ONE'S OWN; THE BATTLE OF JERICHO; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Joan Perkin demonstrates clearly in this outstanding book, full of human insights, that women were not content to remain inferior to men in the `bonds of matrimony'.