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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frost, Ginger Suzanne, 1962-
Language:English
Published: Manchester New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan 2008.
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Variant Title:
Living in Sin: Cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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.