- Manchester University Press
- 2011
- Taschenbuch
- 276 Seiten
- ISBN 9780719085697
"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
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