Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales

Introduction

Part I
1. 'That Useful Exotic from France': Mid-Victorian Personalities, Politics, Culture, and How the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 Reached the English Statute Book
2. What Was the Law of 'Economic Divorce'?

Part II
3. What was the Machinery for 'Divorce Before Magistrates'?
4. How Widespread was the Use of 'Economic Divorce' through Section 21 Orders in Victorian England and Wales?

Part III
5. Experiences of Desertion and Strategies of Independence in Mid-nineteenth-century London and Lancashire
6. Experiences of Applying for 'Economic Divorce' in Mid-nineteenth-century London and Lancashire
7. Traversing 'this dangerous ground': Deserted Wives and the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes

Afterword

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• Direito da família
• Historia do direito
• Assédio sexual : sistema jurico e sexo

Women; Wives; Marriage; Divorce; Separation; Economic agency; Nineteenth century; Magistrates' courts; Legal History