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Living in sin [[electronic resource] ] : cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England / / Ginger S. Frost



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Autore: Frost Ginger Suzanne <1962-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Living in sin [[electronic resource] ] : cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England / / Ginger S. Frost Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press
New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, c2008
Edizione: Online-ausg.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
Disciplina: 306.84/1094209034
Soggetto topico: Unmarried couples - England - History - 19th century
Soggetto non controllato: Victorian courts
class differences
cohabitation
common-law marriages
couples
generational differences
indifference
irregular unions
marriage
nineteenth-century England
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-254) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Living in sin  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78170-072-9
1-84779-141-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819990203321
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Serie: Gender in History