Living in sin
Subtitle: cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England
By: Ginger S. Frost.
Series: Gender in history
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780719077364
Subjects: Unmarried couples -- England -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cohabitation, illegitimacy, and the law in England, 1750-1914; title: Violence and cohabitation in the courts; title: Affinity and consanguinity; title: Bigamy and cohabitation; title: Adulterous cohabitation; title: The 'other Victorians' : the demimonde and the very poor; title: Cross-class cohabitation; title: Radical couples, 1790-1850; title: Radical couples, 1850-1914.