03558nam 2200853 a 450 991081999020332120200520144314.01-78170-072-91-84779-141-710.7765/9781847791412(CKB)2560000000085657(EBL)1069613(OCoLC)818847359(SSID)ssj0000712804(PQKBManifestationID)12305436(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712804(PQKBWorkID)10650938(PQKB)10306544(SSID)ssj0001514911(PQKBManifestationID)12532303(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001514911(PQKBWorkID)11480308(PQKB)10966031(StDuBDS)EDZ0000086842(OCoLC)934664477(MdBmJHUP)muse77977(OCoLC)1132224242(Au-PeEL)EBL1069613(CaPaEBR)ebr10623211(CaONFJC)MIL843747(MiAaPQ)EBC1069613(DE-B1597)660853(DE-B1597)9781847791412(EXLCZ)99256000000008565720090902d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiving in sin cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England /Ginger S. FrostOnline-ausg.Manchester, U.K. ;New York Manchester University Press ;New York Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillanc20081 online resource (273 p.)Gender in HistoryGender in historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-7190-8569-1 0-7190-7736-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-254) and index.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.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.Gender in HistoryUnmarried couplesEnglandHistory19th centuryVictorian courts.class differences.cohabitation.common-law marriages.couples.generational differences.indifference.irregular unions.marriage.nineteenth-century England.Unmarried couplesHistory306.84/1094209034Frost Ginger Suzanne1962-1645709MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819990203321Living in sin3992331UNINA