Cruelty and companionship : conflict in nineteenth-century married life / A. James Hammerton.
Original, imaginative and challenging ... brings concerns together about gender, the family, and wider currents in British social, cultural and even political experience in the second half of the 19th century.' - Leonore Davidoff.
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Routledge,
1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A CHRONOLOGY OF KEY EVENTS AND PUBLICATIONS; GENERAL INTRODUCTION; 1 THE TARGETS OF 'ROUGH MUSIC': RESPECTABILITY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; 2 'ROUGH USAGE'; 3 COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE AND THE CHALLENGE TO PATRIARCHY; 4 CRUELTY AND DIVORCE; 5 THE ADAPTATION OF PATRIARCHY IN LATE-VICTORIAN MARRIAGE; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX 1 A note on sources: court records and family history; APPENDIX 2 Street ballads celebrating the attack on General Haynau; APPENDIX 3 Lancashire dialect poetry on domestic relationships; NOTES.