Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-century England (Gender in History)

by Ginger S . Frost (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $22.75

  Shows the changing relationship of family to state, and the way in which pressure from below influenced the approach of the courts.

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $88.38

  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. -- .