TY - BOOK ID - 135623539 TI - Living in sin : cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England PY - 2008 SN - 1781700729 1847791417 9781847791412 9781781700723 9780719077364 0719077362 PB - Manchester, U.K. ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Unmarried couples KW - History KW - Victorian courts. KW - class differences. KW - cohabitation. KW - common-law marriages. KW - couples. KW - generational differences. KW - indifference. KW - irregular unions. KW - marriage. KW - nineteenth-century England. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135623539 AB - Living in sin' is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. 'Common-law' marriages did not have any legal basis, so the Victorian courts had to wrestle with unions that resembled marriage in every way, yet did not meet its most basic requirements. The majority of those who lived in irregular unions did so because they could not marry legally. Others chose not to marry, from indifference, from class differences, or because they dissented from marriage for philosophical reasons. This book looks at each moti. ER -