18138 Victorian 00 for the three volumes

00 for the three volumes

Pebbled green cloth with embossed decorations

The collections include all the illustrations

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This copy is almost like new

18138 Victorian 00 for the three volumesThe 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