Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England 1660-1857

by Lawrence Stone

Lawrence Stone's trilogy on marriage in early modern England has been widely praised. The New York Times Book Review hailed the first volume, Road to Divorce as "sure-footed and fascinating commentary" and chose it as a Notable Book of 1990. Christopher Hibbert in the Independent found that the "absorbing and often extraordinary" stories in volume two, Uncertain Unions "throw a clear, bright light not only upon the making and breaking of marriages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198202547
• ISBN13: 9780198202547
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"