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The Passionate Politics of Marital Conflict: How Do You Get the Story Straight When Everyone Has Their Own? - Marriage, Wife-Beating and the Law in Victorian England. By Maeve E. Doggett. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. - Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Married Life. By A. James Hammerton. London: Routledge, 1992. - Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England, 1660–1753. By Lawrence Stone. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. - Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England, 1660–1857. By Lawrence Stone. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
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