Breach of Promise to Marry: A History of How Jilted Brides Settled Scores

by Denise Bates

'The marriage day was fixed, the wedding dresses were bought, the wedding tour was planned out, the wedding guests were invited. The day came but not the bridegroom...'

While Dickens' embittered spinster Miss Havisham stopped all her clocks on her wedding day and 'never since looked upon the light of day', the reality was much brighter for thousands of jilted women. The real Miss Havisham's didn't mope in faded wedding finery - they hired lawyers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783030364
• ISBN13: 9781783030361
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Wharncliffe
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"