BROKEN LIVES: SEPARATION AND DIVORCE IN ENGLAND 1660-1857
Written by Lawrence Stone
Published by Oxford University Press
in 1993
ISBN: 0198202547
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BROKEN LIVES: SEPARATION AND DIVORCE IN ENGLAND 1660-1857
Written by Lawrence Stone.
Stock no. 1830424
1st.
1993.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The last book in a trilogy of the subject. How the break-up and dissolution of marriages was contrived before the first Divorce Act in 1857. Individuals in their own words explain their actions and feelings about one another in dramatic courtroom confrontations, while behind the scenes they were conducting secret negotiations, and offering massive bribes to witnesses either to commit perjury or to hold their tongues. These stories offer astonishing insights into many hitherto unknown aspects of martial life and marital breakdown in early modern England. Dark blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xviii and 355 pages including index. ISBN: 0198202547. Minor foxing to top edge of text block else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- List of Genealogies
- Abbreviations
- I INTRODUCTION
- 1. Purpose, Structure and Evidence
- 2. The Courts and the Law
- 3. Separation and Divorce in a Pre-Modern Society
- 4. The Methods of Making a Marriage
- 5. The Methods of Breaking a Marriage
- (i) Desertion and Elopment
- (ii) Wife-Sale
- (iii) Separation by Private Deed
- (iv) Judicial Separation from Bed and Board
- (v) Crim. Con. Litigation
- (vi) Parliamentary Divorce
- 6. Marriage and Property
- 7. Marriage and Moral Values
- II CASE STUDIES
- 1. Boteler v Boteler
- The battered wife, 1656 - 1675
- 2. Blood v Blood
- Separation for cruelty, 1686 - 1704
- 3. Calvert v Calvert
- Multiple Adultery and bigamy, 1698 - 1710
- 4. Turst v Turst
- Marital cruelty and the wife's separate estate 1725 - 1738
- 5. Dineley v Dineley
- Cruelty, adultery and murder, 1717 - 1741
- 6. Beaufort v Beaufort
- he impotent duke and the adulterous duchess, 1729 - 1742
- 7. Grafton v Grafton
- Private Separation and public divorce 1767 - 1769
- 8. Middleton v Middleton
- he Lady and the Groom, 1781 - 1796
- 9. Loveden v Loveden
- The Lady and the don, 1794 - 1811
- 10. Cadogan v Cadogan
- The lady and the parson, 1777 - 1794
- 11. Otway v Otway
- Private and Public separation, 1790 - 1811
- 12. Westmeath v Westmeath
- The wars between the Westmeaths
- Index