Broken lives : separation and divorce in England, 1660-1857 /
Presents case-histories to reflect the shifting attitudes towards love, marriage and divorce in the period from the mid-17th century to the mid-19th century. This title, following on from "Road to Divorce" and "Uncertain Unions", completes Stone's trilogy on marriage and div...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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| Series: | UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Elopement. (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 : The impotent duke and the adulterous duchess, 1729-1742. 7. Grafton v. Grafton: Private separation and public divorce, 1756-1769. (i). From Marriage to Private Separation, 1756-1765.
- (Ii). From Adulteries to Divorce, 1765-1769. (iii). The Last Years, 1769-1811
- (iv). Conclusion. 8. Middleton v. Middleton: The lady and the groom, 1781-1796. (i). The Background, 1781-1791. (ii). Trouble, 1791-1792. (iii). The First Crisis, November-December 1792. (iv). The Second Crisis, February-March 1793. (v). The Final Crisis, March-April 1793. (vi). The Litigation, 1793-1796
- (vii). Conclusion. 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, 1812-1857. (i). The Failure of the Marriage, 1812-1818. (ii). The Causes of the Failure. (iii). The Struggle over Child Custody, 1819-1825. (iv). Litigation in the Secular Courts, 1820-1831. (v). Litigation in the Ecclesiastical Courts, 1821-1834. (vi). The Financial and Psychological Consequences
- (vii). Conclusion.