Description
Book SynopsisLiving 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. -- .
Trade ReviewMost historians of sexuality, courtship, marriage and the family in Victorian and early 20th century Britain will already be familiar with the excellent social and cultural histories of Ginger Frost. It will come as no surprise to them to learn that Living in Sin is a wonderful book' -- .
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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
