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"In a study based on court records and lawyers' correspondence, Stephen Waddams shows how the law worked not only in theory but in practice. He concludes that, though this branch of the law had many deficiencies, it also had certain merits, especially from the point of view of women, who constituted 90 per cent of all complainants.
The evidence of the witnesses supplies details of day-to-day events and of social attitudes from the words of participants, who were mostly of a very modest social status and not accustomed to recording their views. Their evidence provides a valuable perspective not generally available to historians." "The study is of importance to legal historians and to all who have an interest in nineteenth-century England, especially to those concerned with the sexual reputation of women."--BOOK JACKET.
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Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in The Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815-1855
June 13, 2000, University of Toronto Press
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0802047505 9780802047502
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