A letter to a friend,
concerning the Duke of Norfolk's bill.
London: printed by Matthew
Gillyflower & John Barnes, 1700.
4p. The case of Mary Dutchess of
Norfolf [sic]. The proceedings upon the
bill of divorce between His Grace the Duke of Norfolke and the Lady Mary
Mordant, viz. London, 1700.
A list of private
acts, enclosure, settlements, estates, divorce, railway, etc. Relating to the county of Northumberland,
London. London: Stevens & Sons, 1913.
A remonstrance against
the testimony and application of Mary Dyer, requesting legislative interference
against the United Society, commonly called Shakers. Together with some affidavits and certificates, showing the
falsity of her statements. Concord,
NH: Printed by Isaac HIL, 1818. 23p.
Mary Dyer after her divorce resumed her maiden name Mary Marshall. Addressed to the legislature of New Hampshire
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Abbot, George, abp. of Canterbury, 1562-1633. Cases
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by the booksellers in town and country, 1737.
Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron, 1834-1902. Historical
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544p. Histories of several
people, including the divorce of Charles II.
Advanced equitable
distribution. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 1994. 255p.
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divorces of the rich and famous:
the unauthorized inside stories of the nation's 20 most sensational
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Albert, Marvin H. The divorce. New York, NY: Simon and
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Albert, Marvin H. The divorce: a re-examination by an American writer of the great Tudor
controversy. London &
Toronto: Harrap, 1966. 319p.
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547, Divorce from Catharine &
Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536.
Aldington, A. E. Love letters that caused a divorce. New York, NY: G. W. Dillingham Company, 1906.
96p.
Ames, Flora Hayter. Mrs. Hugo Ames: The book of divorce; its
use and abuse. London: 1911.
195p.
An essay on
marriage; or, The lawfulness of
divorce, in certain cases, considered:
addressed to the feelings of mankind. Philadelphia, PA: Printed
by Zachariah Poulson, Jr., 1788. 28p.
An essay upon
divorcement; writ for the good of both
sexes, shewing the lawfulness and unlawfulness, the conveniences and
inconveniences of divorces with a peremptory conclusion upon the fame,
occasion'd by the debates in the House of Lords, the 3d of this instant, upon
Sir Geo. Downing and Mrs. Forester, petitioning for a divorce, which will also
be an answer to Mr. Shuttlewood's wedding sermon intitled, Marriages made in
heaven. London: Printed for J. Baker, 1715. 42p.
Andrews, Stephen Pearl (1812-1886), ed. Love,
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Greeley and Stephen Pearl Andrews; and
a hitherto unpublished manuscript, Love, marriage, and the condition of woman. Weston, MA:
M & S Press, 1975.
121p. Reprint of the 1889 ed.
published by B. R. Tucker, Boston.
Andrews, Stephen Pearl, ed. Love, marriage, and divorce, and the
sovereignty of the individual. New
York, NY: Stringer & Townsend,
1853. 103p.
Andrews, Thomas Sheldon (1829-1891). Ira
Andrews & Ann Hopkinson, their ancestors and posterity: including the autobiography of the
author: also a treatise on marriage,
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Blade Print. and Paper Co.,
1879. 437p.
Ap Richard (pseud.).
Marriage and divorce: an inquiry into the moral, the practical,
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Arnaud, François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'
(1718-1805). Anne Bell: histoire anglaise. 2d. ed.
Paris: Chez Le Jay, libraire,
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Bandyopadhyay, Samaresh. Foreign accounts of marriage in ancient
India. Calcutta, India: Firma K.
L. Mukhopadhyay, 1973. 76p.
Barnett, James Harwood. Divorce and the American divorce novel,
1858-1937; a study in literary
reflections of social influences.
Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania, 1939. New York, NY: Russell & Russell, 1968 (1st
1939). 168p.
Bartlett, George Arthur.
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179p.
Basch, Norma. Framing American divorce: from the revolutionary generation to the
Victorians. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. 237p.
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of all the witnesses, together with all the evidence suppressed by the daily
papers. New York, NY: R. M. De Witt, 1860. 83p.
Bechmann, Hans Gram. "Married misery" and its
Scandinavian solution, a reprint of Lord Buckmaster's articles and a digest of recent
Scandinavian legislation.
London: Gyldendal, 1923. 121p.
Bennett, George. Bennett divorce case: being a plain account of all the important
facts brought out on the trial, and those connected with it; with disclosures on the case, by Edson Sanford. New Haven:
1860.
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Batavorvm: Ex officina F. Moyardi,
1651. 315p.
Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of. The
speeches of Lord Birkenhead, with a preface by the Right Hon. Lord Hugh Cecil. London:
Cassell, 1929. 276p. Many diverse topics from air service, trade
bills, politics, governments and loose thinking other issues including divorce.
Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith. Last Essays, by the Earl of
Birkenhead. With introduction by
Lord Macmillan. London: Cassell and Company, 1930. 426p.
Many diverse essays including the “The cruelties of divorce.”
Blaine, Tom R. Marriage happiness or unhappiness. Based on the author's experiences as a trial
judge in more than ten thousand divorce cases. Philadelphia: Dorrance,
1955. 197p.
Blake, Nelson Manfred. The road to Reno: a history of divorce in the United States. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1962. 269p.
Blayac, Alain, ed. Evelyn Waugh: new directions. New
York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
160p. Several articles including
“Evelyn Waugh and Vatican divorce” by Donat Gallagher.
Bonald, Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise, vicomte de (1754-1840). On
Divorce. Translated and edited by
Nicholas Davidson; foreword by Robert
Nisbet. English New Brunswick, U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1992. 204p.
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Commons, and, in consequence of an appeal, determined in a Court of Delegates
on the 2d of this instant, when the Right Honourable the Countess of Strathmore
obtained a divorce. London: Printed for R. Randall, 1789.
Bowman, William Dodgson.
The divorce case of Queen
Caroline: an account of the reign of
George IV and the King's relations with other women. London:
G. Routledge & sons, 1930.
301p.
Brame, Charlotte Mary.
Lady Castlemaine's divorce; or, Put asunder. New York, NY: John W. Lovell, c1887.
198p. New York, NY: Street & Smith, 1900. 198p.
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Britton, Tamara L. Prince William. Minneapolis, MN: Abdo Pub. Co., 1999.
PPD: 2001. A simple biography of the popular English
prince, whose happiness was tempered with the divorce of his parents and then
by the death of his mother.
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religion, and adolescence; scientific
psychology for parents and teachers, with a chapter on love, marriage,
celibacy, and divorce.
Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd
Company, 1912. 175p.
Bullen, Brian Cowling.
Love, marriage and divorce, and
the greatest of these is reformation! New York, NY: J. S.
Ogilvie Publishing Company, c1912. 96p.
Burch, Isaac H. The only complete report of the Burch
divorce case: containing a
comprehensive history of the case--the preliminary movements, the
"confession" of Mrs. Burch,
opening speeches of counsel, the deposition of parties implicated, and all the
testimony in full, together with the letters offered in evidence but ruled out
by the court. Burch vs. Burch. New York, NY: R. M. de Witt, c1860.
116p.
Bythewood, Daniel. An essay:
embracing, first, the divine authority of marriage, or the connubial
rite: secondly, the New Testament
doctrine of divorce and marriage, with occasional inferences: thirdly, human authorities, or uninspired
writers, on the same subject, as we find them, here and there, interspersed in
church history: with brief reflections
throughout, all of which, in view of the purity, chastity, and holiness, of the
church of Christ. Charleston: W. Riley, 1837. 20p.
Carvell, Ian George.
Divorce law and practice. London:
Law Society, 1970. 27p. (1971, 23p.; 1972, 26p.; 1973,
24p.; [Leicester: Willsons Printers, 1974, 27p.; 1975, 28p.]; Margate, England: Thanet
Press, 1976, 28p.; Guildford, Great
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Cataldo, Paul A., et al.
Preparing divorce documents: how to assemble the complete package of
documents in divorce cases. Boston,
MA: MCLE, 1993. 418p.
Cheney, John Carl. Marriage and divorce: or the trial and defence of John Carl Cheney. Amherst, MA: J. B. Smith, 1880. 32p.
Copies of the
depositions of the witnesses examined in the cause of divorce now depending in
the Consistory Court of the Lord Bishop of London: at Doctor's Commons, between the Right Honourable Richard Lord
Grosvenor and the Right Honourable Henrietta Lady Grosvenor, his wife, as they
were severally taken by Mess.
Lushington and Haseltine, proctors, the examiners in the above
cause: with an appendix containing the
libel and allegations. London: Printed for J. Russell, 1771.
Coulton, George Gordon. Medieval panorama; the English scene from conquest to reformation. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company;
Cambridge University Press, 1938.
801p.
Couric, Emily. Divorce lawyers: the people and stories behind ten dramatic cases. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press,
1993. 398p. (1st 1992, 366p.)
Cowley, Charles (1832-1908). Famous divorces of all ages. Introduction to the 1991 reprint edition by
J. Wesley Miller. Buffalo, NY: W. S. Hein, 1991. 291p.
Crabitès, Pierre. Clement VII and Henry VIII. London:
G. Routledge, 1936. 275p.
Cujus, & John Talbot. Divorce in 1857, the Talbot case: letters by "Cujus" containing full
particulars of the case, with observations on the present unsatisfactory state
of the law. London: Ward and Lock, 1857. 228p.
Daly, Augustin. Divorce. New York, NY: Printed for
the author, 1884. 93p.
De Montmorency, James Edward Geoffrey. John
Gorell Barnes, first lord Gorell (1848-1913) a memoir. London:
J. Murray, 1920. 302p.
Delman, David. The bluestocking: the story of the famous Forrest divorce case. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press,
1994. 287p.
Dempster, Nigel, & Peter Evans.
Behind palace doors: marriage and divorce in the House of
Windsor. New York, NY: Putnam, 1993. 271p.
Desfontaines de la Vallée, Guillaume François Fouques
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au théâtre du Vaudeville, c1793. 52p.
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rural China, 1949-1964. Berkeley,
CA: University of California Press,
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for the libelee, Helen Maria Dalton, in the Dalton divorce case: consisting of the opening address of H. F.
Durant, Esq., and the closing plea of Hon. Rufus Choate: the phonographic report of the Daily bee, by
Messrs. J.M.W. Yerrington, and Rufus
Leighton, of Boston and Messrs. Henry M. Parkhurst and William H. Burr, of New York. Boston Daily
Bee Extra, Boston: Office of the
Boston Daily Bee, 1857. 47p.
Dyer, Mary M.. A brief statement of the sufferings of Mary
Dyer, occasioned by the society called Shakers. Written by herself. To which
is added, affidavits and certificates;
also, a declaration from their own publication. Boston:
Published by William S. Spear.
1818. 35p. Mary Dyer after her divorce resumed her
maiden name Mary Marshall.
Eldon, John Scott, 1st earl of, 1751-1838. A letter to John, lord
Eldon, lord high chancellor of Great Britain;
on the rumour of an intended royal divorce. London, Ridgway and sons, 1816.
Epstein, Edward Z. Notorious divorces. Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1976. 254p.
Erasmus, Desiderius (d. 1536). The censure and judgement
of the famous clark Erasmus of Roterodam, whyther dyuorsemente betwene man and
wyfe stondeth with the lawe of God, with diuers causes wherfore it is permitted
with the mynde of the olde doctours.
Translated by Nycolas Lesse.
London: Printed by the Wydowe of
J. Herforde for R. Stoughton, c1550.
Estienne, Henri (1528-1598, supposed author) Journal
des choses memorables advenues durant le regne de Henry III, roy de France, et
de Pologne. Cologne, Germany: Les heritiers de P. Marteau, 1720. 2 volumes.
Including Pierre Dupuy (1582-1651), Louis Servin (1555-c1626), Pierre de
L'Estoile (1546-1611), Pierre Victor Palma Cayet (1525-1610), duchesse de
Catherine de Parthenay-Larchevêque Rohan (1554-1631), Théodore Agrippa d'
Aubugné (1552-1630) & Jacob Le Duchat (1658-1735)
Feifer, George, ed. Divorce:
an oral history. New York,
NY: New Press: Distributed by W. W. Norton & Co.,
1995. 322p.
Fenn, Henry Edwin. Thirty-five years in the divorce court. London:
T. W. Laurie, 1910. 309p.
Fisher, Helen E. Anatomy of love: the natural history of monogamy, adultery, and divorce. New York, NY: Norton, 1992. 431p.
Fleming, Gordon H. Lady Colin Campbell: Victorian "sex goddess" Gloucestershire, England: Windrush Press, 1989. 248p.
Fordham, Kate. No pit too deep: the diary of a divorce.
Tring, Herts, England: Lion
Pub., 1982. 159p.
Forrest, Catharine Norton (Sinclair).
The Forrest divorce case. New York, NY: Dewitt and Davenport, 1852.
185p.
Forrest, William (d. 1581). The history of Grisild the Second: a narrative, in verse, of the divorce of
Queen Katharine of Arragon. Written by
William Forrest, sometime chaplain to Queen Mary I, and now edited, for the
first time, from the author's ms. in the Bodleian library. Edited by the Rev. Willliam D. Macray. London:
Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, 1875. 199p.
Frederick, Henry, Duke of Cumberland, Countess Henrietta Vernon Grosvenor
& Richard Grosvenor. Free thoughts on seduction, adultery, and
divorce. London: J. Bell, 1771. 293p.
Furniss, Harold. The Campbell divorce case: copious report of the trial. With numerous portraits of those concerned,
drawn from life. London: Henning & Co., 1887.
Gibson, Colin S. Dissolving wedlock. London;
New York, NY: Routledge,
1994. 246p. Marriage & divorce law & history.
Gillis, Phyllis L. Days like this: a tale of divorce.
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill,
1986. 302p. Divorce & case studies on equitable distribution of marital
property.
Glieberman, Herbert A., & Paul G. Neimark. Confessions
of a divorce lawyer. Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1975. 182p.
Glyn, Elinor (1864-1943). Three things. London: Duckworth,
1915. 170p. New York, NY: Hearst's
International Library, 1915. 114p. Woman’s common sense on marriage, divorce
& motherhood.
Goodrich, Edna. Deynard's divorce. Boston:
Richard G. Badger, c1912. 218p.
Greeley, Horace, & Robert Dale Owen.
Divorce: being a correspondence between Horace Greeley and Robert Dale
Owen. New York, NY: R. M. DeWitt, 1860. 60p.
Greeley, Horace. Recollections of a busy life: including reminiscences of American politics
and politicians, from the opening of the Missouri contest to the downfall of
slavery. New York, NY: J. B. Ford;
Boston: H. A. Brown, 1869. 624p.
Some of the early politics of divorce law.
Hall, Arthur Gwynne Jeffreys. The law and practice in
divorce & matrimonial causes, together with a chronological digest from
1730 to 1905. Embodying an index to the
marriage and divorce acts.
London: Reeves &
Turner/Butterworth & Co., c1905.
1371p.
Harrell, Pat Edwin. Divorce and remarriage in the early
church; a history of divorce and
remarriage in the ante-Nicene church.
Austin: R. B. Sweet Co.,
1967. 256p.
Harris, Janice Hubbard. Edwardian stories of divorce. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996.
214p.
Harris, Louis. Love, marriage and divorce in history and
law. Boston, MA: Stratford, 1930. 150p.
Hastings, Patrick, Sir. Famous and infamous cases. London:
Heinemann, 1950. 263p. Including famous divorce cases.
Hatch, Benjamin Franklin. Spiritualists' iniquities unmasked, and the
Hatch divorce case. New York,
NY: The author, 1859. 52p.
Hill, Joyce, & Mary Swan. The community, the family, and the
saint: patterns of power in early
medieval Europe: selected proceedings
of the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 4-7 July 1994,
10-13 July 1995. Turnhout,
Belgium: Brepols, 1998. 427p.
A varied collection including “Hrotsvitha's imagining of a chaste female
community” & “Why should bishops be involved in marital affairs? Hincmar of
Rheims on the divorce of King Lothar II (855-869).”
Horstman, Allen. Victorian divorce. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press,
1985. 196p.
Ireland, John. Nuptiæ.
London: J. Murray, 1821. 146p.
Irwin, Inez Haynes. Gertrude Haviland's divorce. New York and London: Harper & brothers, 1925. 389p.
Jenkins Johnson, Kendrick. Rabelaisian reminiscenses [!] of Reno. Los Angeles: Gem Publishing Company, c.1934.
114p.
Jenkins, John A. Ladies' man: the life and trials of Marvin Mitchelson. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press,
1992. 301p.
Jones, Mary Somerville.
An historical geography of the changing
divorce law in the United States.
New York, NY: Garland,
1987. 232p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1978.
Karnick, Kristine Brunovska, & Henry Jenkins. Classical
Hollywood comedy. New York,
NY: Routledge, 1995. 430p.
Including “Commitment and reaffirmation in Hollywood romantic comedy” by
Kristine Brunovska Karnick; “Goin' to
town and beyond: Mae West, film
censorship and the comedy of unmarriage” Ramona Curry; “Divorce, DeMille, and the comedy of
remarriage” by Charles Musser.
Kingdon, Robert McCune. Adultery and divorce in Calvin's Geneva. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
214p.
Kingston, Charles. Society sensations. New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & company, 1922. 253p. Trials in Great
Britain, including those on divorce.
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936). Tales of East and West. Selected by Bernard Bergonzi and illustrated
by Charles Raymond for the members of the Limited Editions Club. Avon, CT:
Limited Editions Club, 1973.
375p. Including “The Bronckhorst
divorce-case.”
Kitchin, Shepherd Braithwaite. A history of divorce. Cape Town, South Africa; J. C. Juta & Co.; London:
Chapman & Hall, 1912. 293p.
Lawrence, Timothy Bigelow.
An exposition of the difficulties
between T. B. Lawrence and his wife, Sallie Ward Lawrence, which led to their
divorce. Boston, W. Little &
co., 1851. 14p.
Leathley, Samuel Arthur.
The history of marriage and
divorce. London: J. Long, 1916. 160p.
Lloyd's reports of
prize cases during the European war.
London: Lloyd's, 1915-24.
Louvet de Couvrai, Jean Baptiste (1760-1797). Emilia
de Varmont, or, The necessary divorce;
and Memoirs of Curate Sevin: A
moral and political tale: Founded on
facts. Translated from the French
of M. Louvet by Melatiah Nash.
New-York,, NY: T. & J.
Swords, 1799. 3 volumes in 1.
Loveden, Edward Loveden.
The trial at large of an action by
Edward Loveden Loveden, Esq., against Thomas Raymond Barker, Esq., for criminal
conversation with Mrs. Loveden, in
which the damages were laid at 10,000 1.
Tried before Lord Ellenborough and a special jury, at Westminister, on
Monday, July 3, 1809. Taken in
shorthand by Mr. Gurney. To which are
added proceedings on the motion for a new trial, and the depositions of
witnesses in the Consistory Court of London:
including the intercepted correspondence between Mrs. Loveden and Mr. Barker, with the sentence of divorce pronounced by Sir William
Scott. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neeley, and Jones by
Gillet, 1810. 222p.
Luckock, Herbert Mortimer. The history of marriage, Jewish and
Christian, in relationship to divorce and certain forbidden degrees. 2d ed.
London; New York, NY: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895. 359p.
Lys, Claudia de. How the world weds: the story of marriage, adultery &
divorce. Detroit, MI: Omingraphics, 1997. (1st published: New York, NY: The Martin Press, 1929.)
279p. Marriage customs, rites
& divorce.
May, Elaine Tyler. Great expectations: marriage and divorce in post-Victorian
America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. 200p.
McCardie, Henry Alfred.
Judicial wisdom of Mr. Justice
McCardie; or, Famous cases of Mr. Justice McCardie: domestic and social relations, divorce cases, legal cases of
general interest. Edited by Albert
Crew. London: I. Nicholson & Watson, 1932.
298p.
Middleton, Edward. Paper book in the matter of the petition of
Edward Middleton to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvaina,
for a divorce from his wife.
Philadelphia, PA?: [n.p.] c1850. 47p.
Dated and signed: January 1850,
Thomas D. Smith, an alderman for the city of Philadelphia.
Middleton, Edwardina.
In the matter of the petition of
Edward Middleton to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvaina,
for a divorce from his wife.
Philadelphia, PA: [n.p.]
c1850. 18p.
Miller, Frederick Scott.
Illustrated with original drawings by W. L. Haskell. Fighting
modern evils that destroy our homes; a
startling exposure of the snares and pitfalls of the social world, vividly depicting
how homes are wrecked and souls destroyed through the wiles and trickery of
mystic cults, and the soulmate, the affinity, easy marriage, easy divorce,
intemperence, etc., etc. A crusade for
the purity of the home.
Chicago: Homewood Press, c.1913. 416p.
I especially like the “with original drawings.”
Morgan, Hector Davies. The doctrine and law of marriage, adultry,
and divorce. Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter London: 1826.
Mouret, Jean Joseph (d. 1738). Les jeux olimpiques. [n.p.].
Ochino, Bernardino (1487-1564). A dialogue of polygamy, written originally
in Italian: rendred into English by a
person of quality. London: Printed for J. Garfield, 1657. 89p.
Ochino, Bernardino (d. 1564). The cases of polygamy, concubinage, adultery,
divorce & seriously and learnedly discussed. London, 1732.
Attributions to: Sir Charles
Wolseley (d. 1714) & Catemore (pseud.).
240p.
Pallavicino, Ferrante. The celestial divorce. [n.p.] 1718.
Parsons, Reuben. Some lies and errors of history. Reprinted from the "Ave
Maria." 2nd ed. &
enlarged. Notre Dame, IN: Office of the Ave Maria, c1893. 336p.
Diverse topics such as the divorce of Napoleon and Josephine to the man
in the iron mask to schismatic Greek churches.
Phillips, Roderick. Family breakdown in late eighteenth-century
France: divorces in Rouen, 1792-1803. Oxford:
Clarendon Press; New York,
NY: Oxford University Press, 1980. 244p.
Phillips, Roderick. Untying the knot: a short history of divorce.
Cambridge [England]; New York,
NY: Cambridge University Press,
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Pickhardt, Carl E. The case of the scary divorce: a Jackson Skye mystery. Washington, DC: Magination Press, 1997.
88p.
Pocock, Nicholas, ed. Records of the reformation: the divorce 1527-1533. Mostly now for the first time printed from
mss. in the British Museum, the Public Record Office, the Venetian Archives and
other libraries collected and arranged.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1870. 2 volumes. Especially Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547,
& divorce from Catharine.
Pomerai, Ralph de. Marriage, past, present and future; an outline of the history and development of
human sexual relationships.
London: Constable, 1930. 370p.
Poovey, Mary. Uneven developments: the ideological work of gender in
mid-Victorian England.
Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1988. 282p. Including 19th century anesthesia
in obstetrics, social conditions & divorce.
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to keep: decline and renewal of
marriage in America. Lanham,
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theory and practice as revealed by the literature, law, and history of the
period. New York, NY: Russell & Russell, 1972 (1st
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274p.
Ralli, Paul. Nevada lawyer: a story of life and love in Las Vegas. Dallas, TX:
Mathis, Van Nort, 1946.
152p. Culver City, CA: Murray & Gee, 1949. 320p.
Rawson, Beryl. Marriage, divorce, and children in ancient
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York, NY: Oxford University Press,
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Reade, Alissimon. The answer of the Lady Alissimon Reade, wife
to Sir John Reade [1616-1694], late the widow of the Honourable Francis
Pierrepont, unto printed papers entituled, A true state of the case betwixt Sir
John Reade and Dame Alissimon his wife:
which papers being a second time printed and published by the command of
Sir John Reade, she conceives her self bound in defence of her honour, to
invalid such libels, by her witness sworn in the Court of the Arches and
Delegates. London(?): [n.p.] c1670.
Richards G. The question of English divorce, an essay. London:
G. Richards, 1903. 175p.
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