Sin, Sanctity and the Sister-in-Law: Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister in the Nineteenth Century

by David G Barrie and David G. Barrie

Book Overview

This is the first book specifically devoted to exploring one of the longest-running controversies in nineteenth-century Britain - the sixty-five-year campaign to legalise marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister. The issue captured the political, religious and literary imagination of the United Kingdom. It provoked huge parliamentary and religious debate and aroused national, ecclesiastical and sexual passions. The campaign to legalise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081537092X
• ISBN13: 9780815370925
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"