Ginger Frost 
Living in sin [EPUB ebook] 
Cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England

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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 every way, yet did not meet its most basic requirements.
The majority of those who lived in irregular unions did so because they could not marry legally. Others chose not to marry, from indifference, from class differences, or because they dissented from marriage for philosophical reasons. This book looks at each motivation in turn, highlighting class, gender and generational differences, as well as the reactions of wider kin and community.
Frost shows how these couples slowly widened the definition of legal marriage, preparing the way for the more substantial changes of the twentieth century, making this a valuable resource for all those interested in Gender and Social History.

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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

Despre autor

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

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 272 ● ISBN 9781847797100 ● Mărime fișier 2.1 MB ● Editura Manchester University Press ● Oraș Manchester ● Țară GB ● Publicat 2013 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 4029258 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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