Marriage, wife-beating and the law in Victorian England : 'sub virga viri'
Doggett, Maeve E.1992
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This text examines the evolution of wifehood, the strength and enduring popluarity of the fiction of marital unity, and the attitudes of Victorian England which led to a growing concern about wife-beating.
Main title:
Marriage, wife-beating and the law in Victorian England : 'sub virga viri' / Maeve E. Doggett.
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London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, c1992.
Collation:
x,210p. ; 23cm.
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Bibliography: p180-202. -Includes index.
ISBN:
9780297820987
Dewey class:
344.206166344.20616
Language:
English
BRN:
1146418
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