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Cruelty and Companionship : Conflict in Nineteenth Century Married Life by Anthony James Hammerton is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Cruelty and Companionship is an account of the intimate but darker side of marriage in Victorian and Edwardian England. Hammerton draws upon previously unpublished material from the records of the divorce court and magistrates' courts to challenge many popular views about family patterns. His findings open a rare window on the sexual politics of everyday life and the routine tensions which conditioned marriage in middle- and working-class families. Using contemporary evidence ranging from prescr
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Anthony James Hammerton
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781134959174
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Family & Relationships, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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