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The English Marriage: Tales of Love, Money and Adultery by Maureen Waller (Paperback, 2010)

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Author: Maureen Waller. It is social history at its most revealing, astonishing and entertaining. The story of the English marriage is unique and eccentric. It was a husband's jealously guarded right to beat his wife, as long as the stick was no bigger than his thumb.

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The story of the English marriage is unique and eccentric. Long after the rest of Europe and neighbouring Scotland had reformed their marriage laws, England clung to the chaotic and contradictory laws of the medieval Church, making it all too easy to enter into a marriage but virtually impossible to end an unhappy one.If England was a 'paradise for wives' it could only have been through the feistiness of the women. Married women were placed in the same legal category as lunatics. While Englishmen prided themselves on their devotion to liberty, their wives were freer than slaves. It was a husband's jealously guarded right to beat his wife, as long as the stick was bigger than his thumb. Only after 1882 could a married woman even retain her own property. But then marriage was all about property in a society which was both mercenary and violent, where a girl was virtually sold into marriage and a price was put on a wife's chastity. With a cast of hundreds, from loyal and devoted wives in troubled times to those who featured in torious trials for adultery, from abusive husbands whose excesses were only gradually curbed by the law to the modern phemen of the toxic wife, acclaimed historian Maureen Waller draws on intimate letters, diaries, court documents and advice books to trace the evolution of the English marriage. It is social history at its most revealing, astonishing and entertaining.

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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
ISBN-10
1848544014
ISBN-13
9781848544017
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95338408

Dimensions

Weight
300g
Height
197mm
Width
131mm

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
London
Spine
29mm
Content Note
Ill
Author Biography
Maureen Waller read Medieval & Modern History at University College, London and took a Masters at Queen Mary College, London. She is the author of several books including London 1945 and Sovereign Ladies. She lives in London.
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Author(s)
Maureen Waller
Date of Publication
13/05/2010
Format Details
B-Format Paperback
Subject
History: Specific Subjects
Imprint
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
History: Specific Subjects

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