18138 Victorian 550 copies were printed

550 copies were printed

The collections include all the illustrations

Pebbled green cloth with embossed decorations

Not previously opened

Historical analysis of the four reigns in the 18th and early 19th centuries

18138 Victorian 550 copies were printedThe first book to deal with the history of failed marriages in England and how people dealt with them, from the Restoration to the 1980's. Until 1857, England was the only Protestant nation to have no legal mechanism for divorce for adultery, desertion, or cruelty, and husbands, wives, and lawyers went to great lengths to bend or break the law and get around these constraints. Stone examined court cases and legal records from 1660 to 1860 that were