LEADER 03585nam 2200853 a 450 001 9910819990203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78170-072-9 010 $a1-84779-141-7 024 7 $a10.7765/9781847791412 035 $a(CKB)2560000000085657 035 $a(EBL)1069613 035 $a(OCoLC)818847359 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000712804 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12305436 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712804 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10650938 035 $a(PQKB)10306544 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001514911 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12532303 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001514911 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11480308 035 $a(PQKB)10966031 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000086842 035 $a(OCoLC)934664477 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77977 035 $a(OCoLC)1132224242 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069613 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10623211 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL843747 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069613 035 $a(DE-B1597)660853 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781847791412 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000085657 100 $a20090902d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiving in sin$b[electronic resource] $ecohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England /$fGinger S. Frost 205 $aOnline-ausg. 210 $aManchester, U.K. ;$aNew York $cManchester University Press ;$aNew York $cDistributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 225 0 $aGender in History 225 0$aGender in history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7190-8569-1 311 $a0-7190-7736-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 236-254) and index. 327 $aCohabitation, 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. 330 0 $aLiving in sin' is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. 'Common-law' marriages did not have any legal basis, so the Victorian courts had to wrestle with unions that resembled marriage in every way, yet did not meet its most basic requirements. The majority of those who lived in irregular unions did so because they could not marry legally. Others chose not to marry, from indifference, from class differences, or because they dissented from marriage for philosophical reasons. This book looks at each moti. 410 0$aGender in History 606 $aUnmarried couples$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century 610 $aVictorian courts. 610 $aclass differences. 610 $acohabitation. 610 $acommon-law marriages. 610 $acouples. 610 $agenerational differences. 610 $aindifference. 610 $airregular unions. 610 $amarriage. 610 $anineteenth-century England. 615 0$aUnmarried couples$xHistory 676 $a306.84/1094209034 700 $aFrost$b Ginger Suzanne$f1962-$01645709 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819990203321 996 $aLiving in sin$93992331 997 $aUNINA