Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-century EnglandJoan Perkin demonstrates clearly in this outstanding book, full of human insights, that women were not content to remain inferior to men in the `bonds of matrimony' |
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Introduction | 1 |
WOMEN AND THE LAW | 10 |
ANOTHER LAW FOR THE POOR | 115 |
Copyright | |
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