Unquiet Lives
Subtitle: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 16601800 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 11, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521810586
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Social history; Women's studies; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; History: World; Europe - Great Britain - General; Gender Studies; England; Marriage; Social Science / Gender Studies; Divorce; Domestic relations; History; Sources
First sentence: In 1675, Grace Allenson, reflecting on her unhappy marriage, told her servant 'that if she might have but bread and water to live on she were happy if she could but be quiet with it'.