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Author Sievens, Mary Beth, author.

Title Stray wives : marital conflict in early national New England / Mary Beth Sievens
Published New York : New York University Press, [2005]

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Contents Introduction -- A "disobedient, clamorous" wife : the problem of wifely submission -- "A trifling sum" : economic support and consumer spending in New England marriages -- "The duties of a wife" : the meaning of women's work -- "The wicked agency of others" : community involvement and marital discord -- "Having confidence in her own abilities" : coping with estrangement -- "Free and clear from all claims" : divorce and the contradictory nature of women's status -- Afterword: Settling "all matters of dispute" : marital conflict, negotiation, and compromise
Summary Whereas my husband, Enoch Darling, has at sundry times used me in so improper and cruel a manner, as to destroy my happiness and endanger my life, and whereas he has not provided for me as a husband ought, but expended his time and money unadvisedly, at taverns ... I hereby notify the public that I am obliged to leave him. Phebe Darling, January 13, 1796 Hundreds of provocative notices such as this one ran in New England newspapers between 1790 and 1830. These elopement notices--advertisements paid for by husbands and occasionally wives to announce their spouses' desertions as well as th
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Marital conflict -- New England -- History -- 18th century
Marital conflict -- New England -- History -- 19th century
Wives -- New England -- History
Husband and wife -- New England -- History
Legal advertising -- New England -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Husband and wife
Legal advertising
Marital conflict
Wives
Gesetz
Ehekonflikt
Geschlechterrolle
Äktenskap -- historia -- New England -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet.
New England
United States, New England -- Social life and customs.
Neuengland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814745342
0814745342
081474009X
9780814740095