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Divorce - History

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    Alienated affections : the Scottish experience of divorce and separation, 1684-1830 / Leah Leneman.

    | Leah Leneman | Date: [1998]
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    The wife in ancient and modern times / by E.J. Schuster.

    | Ernest Joseph Schuster | Date: 1914
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    Unquiet lives : marriage and marriage breakdown in England, 1660-1800 / Joanne Bailey.

    | Bailey, Joanne (Professor of social and cultural history) | Date: 2003
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    Wives for sale : an ethnographic study of British popular divorce / Samuel Pyeatt Menefee.

    | Menefee, Samuel Pyeatt | Date: 1981
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    A history of matrimonial institutions : chiefly in England and the United States, with an introductory analysis of the literature and the theories of primitive marriage and the family / by George Elliott Howard.

    | George Elliott Howard | Date: 1904
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