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1 online resource |
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Introduction -- "A passage in our history which we could not look back upon without shame": the roots of discontent, c.1835-48 -- Restraining the "devil in our sisters" : James Wortley's marriage affinity bills and the Scottish response, 1849-51 -- The "misery of Scotch law" : political discourses, legal precedents and cultural representations, c.1851-69 -- "Sleeping while the enemy is busy sowing his tares" : the challenge to scripture, c.1851-88 -- "The man is everything, and the woman nothing" : protecting, purifying and conceptualising the family, 1862-88 -- "It is too readily assumed that all those who are opposed to this kind of marriage are idiots" : public opinion, print and personal conscience, 1862-1906 -- "It is time this controversy should end" : reform and reaction -- Conclusion: a woman's question, a man's need, a class's interest? |
| Summary |
This is the first book specifically devoted to exploring one of the longest-running controversies in nineteenth-century Britain - the sixty-five-year campaign to legalise marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister. The issue captured the political, religious and literary imagination of the United Kingdom. It provoked huge parliamentary and religious debate and aroused national, ecclesiastical and sexual passions. The campaign to legalise such unions, and the widespread opposition it provoked, spoke to issues not just of incest, sex and the family, but also to national identity and political and religious governance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Marriage with deceased wife's sister -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Marriage with deceased wife's sister -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Marriage with deceased wife's sister -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century
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Marriage with deceased wife's sister -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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Marriage with deceased wife's sister
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England
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Great Britain
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Scotland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018012078 |
| ISBN |
9781351247832 |
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1351247832 |
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9781351247856 |
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1351247859 |
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9781351247849 |
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1351247840 |
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9781351247825 |
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1351247824 |
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