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Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660-1800 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
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by Joanne Bailey
Sales Rank: 527983
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 260 pages
Published by: Cambridge University Press August 11, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0521810582
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521810586
Book Dimensions:
9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Product Review
"It is lucidly written, gorgeously organzied, and painstakingly researched."
Journal of Social History, Reform and Social Change
"This is a deeply researched and carefully argued book, and it makes a very important contribution to both family and gender history. Bailey's work should be immediately influential among family historians, and it should generate much discussion among historians of gender. Indeed, in a field already rich with the subtle works of such authors as Margaret Hunt, Laura Gowing, and Anna Clark, Bailey stakes out her own ground and demands that we continue to reassess and render more nuanced our understanding of ideologies and experiences of patriarchy and gender relationships in the eighteenth century."
H-Albion
Product Description
Drawing upon vivid court records and newspaper advertisements, this study challenges traditional views of married life in eighteenth-century England. It reveals husbands' and wives' expectations and experiences of marriage to expose the extent of co-dependency between spouses. The book, therefore, presents a new picture of power in marriage and the household. It also demonstrates how attitudes towards adultery and domestic violence evolved during this period, influenced by profound shifts in cultural attitudes about sexuality and violence.
Reader Reviews
This heavily researched and legalistic work, although compact, is well worth the money for any scholar or collection of the origins of modern British, American and Commonwealth family law, legal history in general, English family life in the late Reformation to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, gender studies, theology, and the history of children's rights. It is excellent because it covers, in a most comprehensive fashion, almost all aspects of married life which attracted the involvement of persons outside the marriage - getting married, martial difficulties, and finally marital breakdown - and documents the private feelings of married people, compiling historical information from many reliable sources (particularly court records). My assumptions before reading this book was that married women in England never had effective rights to protect themselves from domestic violence or desertion by their husbands, and that magistrates and judges treated them contemptously. Bailey shows that this was not true; and in exposing how marriage was viewed and dealt with by a deeply religious yet earthy people, the reader can gain empathy and significant knowledge of the philosophy, social structure, laws, expectations, ambitions and private feelings of 17th and 18th century English folk from many walks of life, that thoroughly explain the differences of their world to ours. The writing style is engaging and extremely informative, while also being rigorously factual. I highly recommend this rare book.
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