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Author Bailey, Joanne (Professor of social and cultural history)

Title Unquiet lives : marriage and marriage breakdown in England, 1660-1800 / Joanne Bailey.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS; 1 Introduction: reassessing marriage; 2 'To have and to hold': analysing married life; 3 'For better, for worse': resolving marital difficulties; 4 'An honourable estate': marital roles in the household; 5 'With all my worldly goods I thee endow': spouses' contributions and possessions within marriage; 6 'Wilt thou obey him, and serve him': the marital power balance; 7 'Forsaking all other': marital chastity; 8 'Till death us do part': life after a failed marriage.
Summary A revisionary study of married life in the long eighteenth century in England, this text draws on court records, newspaper advertisements & an original methodology to challenge preconceptions about authority in the household & to show how ideas about adultery & masculinity emerged.
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Subject Marriage -- England -- History -- Sources.
Marriage.
England.
History.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Domestic relations -- England -- History -- Sources.
Domestic relations.
Divorce -- England -- History -- Sources.
Divorce.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- History -- Sources.
History.
Subject Marriage.
Other Form: Print version: Bailey, Joanne, Dr. Unquiet lives. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521810582 (DLC) 2002041447 (OCoLC)51203582
ISBN 0511064268 (electronic book)
9780511064265 (electronic book)
0511120125 (electronic book)
9780511120121 (electronic book)
0511072724
9780511072727
0521810582 (Cloth)

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