Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England, 1660-1857

by Lawrence Stone

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Stone, Lawrence. Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England, 1660-1857. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1993. xviii, 355 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt stamped spine, very good in near fine dust jacket. Internally clean and bright. 25. * A landmark institutional study documenting the bleak realities of marital breakdown in England before the passage of the landmark Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857. Through a series of detailed narrative case studies

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