Marital violence : an English family history, 1660-1857 / Elizabeth Foyster.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Family violence -- England -- History.

Wife abuse -- England -- History.

Families -- England -- History.

1. Rethinking the histories of violence

2. Resisting violence

3. Children and marital violence

4. Beyond conjugal ties and spaces

5. The origins of professional responses.

This book explores the place of marital violence in English family life between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521619127

xiii, 282 p. ; 23 cm