Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England 1660-1857

ISBN-13: 9780198202547 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 388 str.

Lawrence Stone

Recenzje

This is humane writing about lives that were actually lived. Individuals dominate these pages, not people determined by the categories of gender or class. As a result, it is a totally absorbing book.

O autorze

Lawrence Stone is the author of the acclaimed Road to Divorce (OUP, 1990), Family and Fortune (Clarendon Press, 1973), The Crisis of the Aristocracy 1558-1641 (Clarendon Press, 1965), and, with J. C. F. Stone, of An Open Elite? England 1540-1880 (OUP, 1984). His other publications include The Past and the Present (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981) and The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England 1500-1800 (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1977; Penguin 1979).