For Better, for Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women

ISBN-13: 9781138285644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 218 str.

Carolyn Lambert; Marion Shaw; Frances Twinn

Opis

This book outlines the public discourses around marriage in the 19^th century, the legal reforms achieved as a result of public pressure, and the ways in which these laws and economic concerns impacted on the marital relationship, drawing on life writing, journalism, and conduct books.

O autorze

Carolyn Lambert is an independent scholar and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK. Marion Shaw is Emeritus Professor of English at Loughborough University, UK.