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Autore |
Frost Ginger Suzanne <1962-> |
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Titolo |
Living in sin : cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England / / Ginger S. Frost |
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Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
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New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-78170-072-9 |
1-84779-141-7 |
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Edizione |
[Online-ausg.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Collana |
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Gender in History |
Gender in history |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Unmarried couples - England - History - 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-254) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 every way, yet did not meet its most basic requirements. The majority of those who lived in irregular unions did so because they could not marry legally. Others chose not to marry, from indifference, from class differences, or because they dissented from marriage for philosophical reasons. This book looks at each moti. |
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