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The English Marriage: Tales of Love, Money and Adultery (original 2009; udgave 2009)

af Maureen Waller

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The story of the English marriage is unique and eccentric. Long after the rest of Europe and neighboring Scotland had reformed their marriage laws, England clung to the chaotic and contradictory laws of the medieval Church, making it all too easy to enter into a marriage but virtually impossible to end an unhappy one. If England was a "paradise for wives" it could only have been through the feistiness of the women. Married women were placed in the same legal category as lunatics. While Englishmen prided themselves on their devotion to liberty, their wives were no freer than slaves. It was a husband’s jealously guarded right to beat his wife, as long as the stick was no bigger than his thumb. With a cast of hundreds, from loyal and devoted wives in troubled times to those who featured in notorious trials for adultery, from abusive husbands whose excesses were only gradually curbed by the law to the modern phenomenon of the toxic wife, acclaimed historian Maureen Waller draws on intimate letters, diaries, court documents, and advice books to trace the evolution of the English marriage. It is social history at its most revealing, astonishing, and entertaining.… (mere)
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Titel:The English Marriage: Tales of Love, Money and Adultery
Forfattere:Maureen Waller
Info:John Murray (2009), Hardcover, 420 pages
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Nøgleord:Relationships, Borrowed from library, Tsundoku2021, @2021

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The English Marriage: Tales of Love, Money and Adultery af Maureen Waller (2009)

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In the recent equal marriage debates when the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby announced that his and (some of) the Church of England’s opposition was ‘not, at heart, a faith issue; it is about the general social good’, I did wonder whether the House of Lords’ library carried a copy of Maureen Waller’s book. Perhaps if it, and the House of Commons library, had members would have been a little less sure about pontificating about the longevity of the institution and its unchanging nature since their female colleagues, constituents (and wives) had only just about achieved equal heterosexual marriage in the very late twentieth century. And although Waller does focus on devoted love and love enduring beyond death – the happiness and support Margaret Cavendish found with the older Duke of Newcastle, awful Pepys is quite upset by his wife Elizabeth’s death and Lady Susan Lennox finding a happy marriage after being dumped by George III - it is the horrors of marriage that remain haunting.

There are the terribly sad criminal conversation cases when servants turned on adulterous couples, inspected bed linen, peered through keyholes and took bribes. There is the truly barbaric case of Con Phillips, duped and raped and harassed by bigamy trials and legal battles throughout her life. She survived but only by her wits. The Countess of Strathmore’s case is justly famous but needs repeating again and again because of its awfulness and what was done to her reputation by a wicked man. Waller shines a light on these familiar stories by extracts from contemporary sources such as William Gouge’s Of Domesticall Duties, Hannah Woolley The Gentlewoman’s Companion, Lord Halifax’s Advice to a Daughter and The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives.

Why women risked the dangers of marriage when they faced such legal and economic dangers if it all turned out wrong is not entirely a mystery. A charming, dashing suitor could (and still does) sway the most astute of minds and the prospect of singledom was terrible for those who longed for something else. As Harriet Smith said to Emma Woodhouse ‘you will be an old maid! -- and that's so dreadful!’ ‘Never mind, Harriet, I shall not be a poor old maid,’ as Emma replied.
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The story of the English marriage is unique and eccentric. Long after the rest of Europe and neighboring Scotland had reformed their marriage laws, England clung to the chaotic and contradictory laws of the medieval Church, making it all too easy to enter into a marriage but virtually impossible to end an unhappy one. If England was a "paradise for wives" it could only have been through the feistiness of the women. Married women were placed in the same legal category as lunatics. While Englishmen prided themselves on their devotion to liberty, their wives were no freer than slaves. It was a husband’s jealously guarded right to beat his wife, as long as the stick was no bigger than his thumb. With a cast of hundreds, from loyal and devoted wives in troubled times to those who featured in notorious trials for adultery, from abusive husbands whose excesses were only gradually curbed by the law to the modern phenomenon of the toxic wife, acclaimed historian Maureen Waller draws on intimate letters, diaries, court documents, and advice books to trace the evolution of the English marriage. It is social history at its most revealing, astonishing, and entertaining.

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