Breaking the Bonds: Marital Discord in Pennsylvania, 1730-1830

by Merril D. Smith

Book Overview

"In Breaking The Bonds, Merril Smith establishes the ambitious goal of determining 'what kind of problems arose in troubled marriages' and of analyzing 'how men and women coped with marital discord.' . . . To accomplish this, Smith studied hundreds of divorce petitions, other legal documents, newspapers, almshouse dockets, and prescriptive literature. She concludes that, as in the present day, married couples fought and parted over sex,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814779808
• ISBN13: 9780814779804
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"