Coverture, the fiction of marital unity and the status of wives
Subtitle: legal responses to wife assault in nineteenth-century England in context
By: Maeve E. Doggett
Series: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes
Publisher: National Library of Canada
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780315436084
Subjects: Wife abuse; Women; Legal status, laws; Marriage law
Notes: Thesis (LL. M.)--York University, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references.