Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century England

by Ginger S. Frost

Book Overview

Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in Victorian England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. The work also analyses marriage, the Victorian legal system, relations with kin and the reactions of the wider comunities to extra-legal partnerships.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719085691
• ISBN13: 9780719085697
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"