Unquiet Lives Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660–1800 Bailey

Unquiet Lives\n\nMarriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660\u20131800\n\nA revisionary study of married life in eighteenth-century England.\n\nJoanne Bailey (Author)\n\n9780521093118, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 8 January 2009\n\n264 pages\n22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.39 kg\n\nReview of the hardback: 'This book successfully meets it's claim to be \""a pioneering account of the expectations and experiences of married life among the middle and labouring ranks in the long eighteenth century. ... an excellent analysis of the crazy and changing popular assumptions about male and female bodies which underlines domestic violence. ... full of interesting, minutely researched, historical detail ... a fascinating work for the general reader, and a neccessary work for historians of marriage.' INTAMS\n\nBased on vivid court records and newspaper advertisements, this 2003 book is a pioneering account of the expectations and experiences of married life among the ]