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Alienated Affections : Divorce and Separation in Scotland 1684-1830 / Leah Leneman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748610310
  • 9781474470209
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8/9/09411/0903
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Figure and Tables -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Overall Picture -- 2 Proving Adultery - Witnesses -- 3 Proving Adultery - Other Types of Evidence -- 4 Contested Cases -- 5 Unsuccessful Cases -- 6 Aristocratic Divorces -- 7 Gentry Divorces -- 8 Adultery with a Social Inferior -- 9 ‘Common’ Divorces - Part 1 -- 10 ‘Common’ Divorces - Part 2 -- 11 English Marriage and Scottish Divorce -- 12 Desertion and Adherence -- 13 Nullity -- 14 Separation - Part 1: Patterns of Abuse -- 15 Separation - Part 2: Surviving Violence -- 16 Separation - Part 3: Defence and Denial -- 17 The Overall Picture Assessed -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Name Index
Summary: Personal accounts of adultery, cruelty, desertion and nullity fill this exposition of divorce and separation in Scotland in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Leah Leneman brings vividly to life the marriages and affairs, loves and hates, tenderness and harshness experienced by men and women whose marriages broke down in this period. Their stories, told in their own words, come from the entire spectrum of Scottish society, from the aristocracy to the 'common' people. Contrary to popular belief, divorce and legal separation were available on equal terms to men and women in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland. Alienated Affections offers an overall picture of this phenomenon, richly illustrated by the experiences of individuals.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Figure and Tables -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Overall Picture -- 2 Proving Adultery - Witnesses -- 3 Proving Adultery - Other Types of Evidence -- 4 Contested Cases -- 5 Unsuccessful Cases -- 6 Aristocratic Divorces -- 7 Gentry Divorces -- 8 Adultery with a Social Inferior -- 9 ‘Common’ Divorces - Part 1 -- 10 ‘Common’ Divorces - Part 2 -- 11 English Marriage and Scottish Divorce -- 12 Desertion and Adherence -- 13 Nullity -- 14 Separation - Part 1: Patterns of Abuse -- 15 Separation - Part 2: Surviving Violence -- 16 Separation - Part 3: Defence and Denial -- 17 The Overall Picture Assessed -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Name Index

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Personal accounts of adultery, cruelty, desertion and nullity fill this exposition of divorce and separation in Scotland in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Leah Leneman brings vividly to life the marriages and affairs, loves and hates, tenderness and harshness experienced by men and women whose marriages broke down in this period. Their stories, told in their own words, come from the entire spectrum of Scottish society, from the aristocracy to the 'common' people. Contrary to popular belief, divorce and legal separation were available on equal terms to men and women in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland. Alienated Affections offers an overall picture of this phenomenon, richly illustrated by the experiences of individuals.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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