Ginger Frost

Living in sin

Cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England

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Produktbeschreibung

Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in Victorian England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. The work also analyses marriage, the Victorian legal system, relations with kin and the reactions of the wider comunities to extra-legal partnerships.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9780719085697
• ISBN-10: 0719085691
• Artikelnr.: 33263199

Autorenporträt

Ginger S. Frost is Professor of History at Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Cohabitation
illegitimacy
and the law in England
1750-1914 2. Violence and cohabitation in the courts 3. Affinity and consanguinity 4. Bigamy and cohabitation 5. Adulterous cohabitation 6. The 'other Victorians': the demimonde and the very poor 7. Cross-class cohabitation 8. Radical couples
1790-1850 9. Radical couples
1850-1914 Conclusion Bibliography Index