Sin, Sanctity and the Sister-in-Law

Sin, Sanctity and the Sister-in-Law

Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister in the Nineteenth Century

Barrie, David

Taylor & Francis Ltd

06/2020

212

Mole

Inglês

9780367587451

15 a 20 dias

410

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Introduction 1. 'A Passage in Our History which We Could not Look back upon without Shame': The Roots of Discontent, c.1835-1848 2. Restraining the 'Devil in Our Sisters': James Wortley's Marriage Affinity Bills, 1849-1851 3. The 'Misery of Scotch Law': Legal Precedents, Political Discourses and Literary Representations, c.1851-1862 4. 'Sleeping while the Enemy is Busy Sowing His Tares.' The Challenge to Scripture, c.1851-1888 5. 'The Man is Everything, and the Woman Nothing': Protecting, Purifying and Conceptualising the Family, 1862-1888 6. 'It is Too Readily Assumed that all Those Who are Opposed to this Kind of Marriage are Idiots': Public Opinion, Party and Personal Conscience, 1869-1906 7. 'It is Time this Controversy should End': Reform and Reaction, 1907 Conclusion: A Woman's Question, a Man's Need, a Class's Interest?
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Deceased Wife's Sister;Free Church;Modern History;Marriage Law;Social History;United Presbyterian Church;Victorian History;Free Church Minister;MDWS;Liberal MP;Legal History;Conservative MP;History of Working-Class Marriage;Wife's Sister;David G. Barrie;Scots Criminal Law;Lord Advocate;North British Daily Mail;Young Man;Presbyterian Clergy;Sibling Relations;Scotch Law;Marriage Affinity;Irregular Marriages;Presbyterian Church Government;Husband's Deceased Brother;Reform Marriage Law;Scottish Presbyterian Churches;Church State Relations;Married Women's Property Rights;Scottish Opinion;United Presbyterian