Broken lives : separation and divorce in England, 1660-1857

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Broken lives : separation and divorce in England, 1660-1857

by Lawrence Stone

Oxford University Press, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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In Road to Divorce, Lawrence Stone explored and analysed the ambiguous nature of the law and pratice concerning marriage, separation, and divorce in England from 1530 to the present day. He showed how husbands and wives, lovers and lawyers, adapted, circumvented, of defied the law in order to achieve their end, namely either a secure marriage, or a marital separation on favourable terms. In Uncertain Unions, he offered a series of detailed case-studies, which painted a vivid picture of how certain individuals coped with the manifold uncertainties of the law of marriage before the Marriage Act of 1753. Now, Broken Lives completes the trilogy. In it Profesfs Stone offers a second set of detailed case-studies, this time about how the break-up and dissolution of marriages was contrived before the first Divorce Act in 1857. Individuals in their own words explain their actions and feelings about one another in dramatic court-room confrontations, while behind the scenes they were conducting secret negotiations, and offering massive bribes to witnesses either to commit perjury or to hold their tongues. These stories offer astonishing insights into many previously unknown aspects of marital life and marital breakdown in early modern England. They also provide sobering evidence of the huge gap between the enacted law and actual practice.

目次

  • Part 1 Introduction: purpose, structure and evidence
  • the courts and the law
  • separation and divorce in a pre-modern society
  • the methods of making a marriage
  • the methods of breaking a marriage - desertion and elopement, wife-sale, separation by private deed, judicial separation from bed and board, Crim Co litigation, Parliamentary divorce
  • marriage and property
  • marriage and moral values. Part 2 Case studies: Boteler v Boteler - the battered wife 1664-75
  • Blood v Blood - separation for cruelty 1686-1704
  • Calvert v Calvert - multiple adultary and bigamy 1698-1710
  • Turst v Turst - cruelty and a wife's separate estate, 1725-38
  • Dinely v Dinely - cruelty, adultery and murder, 1725-41
  • Beaufort v Beaufort - the impotent Duke and the adulterous Duchess 1729-42
  • Grafton v Grafton - private separation and public divorce 1756-69
  • Middleton v Middleton - the lady and the groom 1781-96
  • Loveden v Loveden - the lady and the don 1794-1811
  • Cadogan v Cadogan - the lady and the parson 1777-94
  • Otway v Otway - private and public separation 1790-1811
  • Westmeath v Westmeath - the wars between the Westmeaths 1812-57.

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