Volume 40, Number 18 · November 4, 1993
The View from the Keyhole
By Keith Thomas
Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England 1660–1753
by Lawrence Stone
Oxford University Press, 281 pp., $35.00
Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England 1660–1857
by Lawrence Stone
Oxford University Press, 355 pp., $35.00
Lawrence Stone's choice of epigraph could hardly be more appropriate. His two volumes on marriage and divorce are as determined an intrusion into the privacy of the past as modern historiography can offer. Stone has already written an excellent general account of marriage and divorce in early modern England, vividly illustrated with colorful, not to say lubricious, material.[*] Now he offers two collections of case studies of matrimonial disasters in England between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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