Alienated Affections: Divorce and Separation in Scotland 1684-1830

by Leah Leneman

Book Overview

Personal accounts of adultery, cruelty, desertion and nullity fill this exposition of divorce and separation in Scotland in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Leah Leneman brings vividly to life the marriages and affairs, loves and hates, tenderness and harshness experienced by men and women whose marriages broke down in this period. Their stories, told in their own words, come from the entire spectrum of Scottish society,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748610316
• ISBN13: 9780748610310
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"