List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Abbreviations;
General introduction; The law and custom of marriage; Contract
marriage; From the Marriage Act of 1753 to 1868; Part II: The
breaking of marriage: Desertion, elopement, and wife-sale; Private
separation; Judicial separation; The action for criminal
conversation; Parliamentary divorce; Divorce reform proposals
1604-1850; The passage to the Divorce Reform Act; Epilogue: The
century of divorce law;
Appendix: A list of pamphlets concerning the Marriage Act of 1753;
Tables; Index
Written by the foremost historian of family life, Lawrence Stone
Lawrence Stone is Dodge Professor of History, and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University.
... engrossing and masterly historical survey ...Road to Divorce is a serious book with a sombre subject. It is also, I"m afraid, magnificently entertaining. It will be supplemented by two further volumes of case histories, referred to in the text but not yet available, Uncertain Unions and Broken Lives. Heartlessly, perhaps, I can hardly wait to read them. Claire Tomalin, The Independent on Sunday Stone has written a stimulating companion to his fascinating Family, Sex and Marriage in England ... another splendid and original work by our leading historian of the family. Christopher Hibbert, Sunday Times ... engrossing and masterly historical survey ...Road to Divorce is a serious book with a sombre subject. It is also, I"m afraid, magnificently entertaining. It will be supplemented by two further volumes of case histories, referred to in the text but not yet available, Uncertain Unions and Broken Lives. Heartlessly, perhaps, I can hardly wait to read them. Claire Tomalin, The Independent on Sunday Stone has written a stimulating companion to his fascinating Family, Sex and Marriage in England ... another splendid and original work by our leading historian of the family. Christopher Hibbert, Sunday Times
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