Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660-1800

by Joanne Bailey

Book Overview

Based on vivid court records and newspaper advertisements, this 2003 book is a pioneering account of the expectations and experiences of married life among the middle and labouring ranks in the long eighteenth century. Its original methodology draws attention to the material life of marriage, which has long been dominated by theories of emotional shifts or fashionable accounts of spouses' gendered, oppositional lives. Thus it challenges preconceptions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521093112
• ISBN13: 9780521093118
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"