Living in Sin - Cohabiting As Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century England

Informationen zum Autor Ginger S. Frost is Professor of History at Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Cohabitation, illegitimacy, and the law in England, 1750-19142. Violence and cohabitation in the courts3. Affinity and consanguinity4. Bigamy and cohabitation5. Adulterous cohabitation6. The 'other Victorians': the demimonde and the very poor7. Cross-class cohabitation8. Radical couples, 1790-18509. Radical couples, 1850-1914ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Ginger Frost, Ginger S. Frost
• Assisted by: Pamela Sharpe (Editor), Penny Summerfield (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2011
• EAN: 9780719085697
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8569-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Gender in History; Gender in History (Paperback); Gender in History (Paperback)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories