Road to divorce : England 1530-1987 / by Lawrence Stone
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990
Descript
xxvii, 460 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
The Making of marriage -- Contract marriage -- Clandestine marriage -- From the marriage Act of 1753 to 1868 -- Desertion, Elopement, and wife-sale -- Private separation -- Judicial separation -- The Action for criminal conversation -- Divorce reform proposals, 1604-1850 -- The Passage of the divorce reform Act, 1850-1857 -- Epilogue: The Century of divorce law reform, 1857-1987
SUBJECT
Divorce -- England -- History
Marriage -- England -- History
Divorce -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History