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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.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Cohabitation, illegitimacy, and the law in England, 1750–1914
2. Violence and cohabitation in the courts
3. Affinity and consanguinity
4. Bigamy and cohabitation
5. Adulterous cohabitation
6. The ‘other Victorians’: the demimonde and the very poor
7. Cross-class cohabitation
8. Radical couples, 1790–1850
9. Radical couples, 1850–1914
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/2008
      ISBN13: 9780719077364, 978-0719077364
      ISBN10: 719077362

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Introduction
      1. Cohabitation, illegitimacy, and the law in England, 1750–1914
      2. Violence and cohabitation in the courts
      3. Affinity and consanguinity
      4. Bigamy and cohabitation
      5. Adulterous cohabitation
      6. The ‘other Victorians’: the demimonde and the very poor
      7. Cross-class cohabitation
      8. Radical couples, 1790–1850
      9. Radical couples, 1850–1914
      Conclusion
      Bibliography
      Index

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