Living in sin : cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England /

"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 ever...

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Main Author: Frost, Ginger Suzanne, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Series:Gender in history.
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