Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes

She seems never to have wished to attain the prescribed female roles of wife and mother—having noticed that several women she knew were liable to Bad-Husband Headaches—and biographer Sally Mitchell finds no evidence of...

Response to IHR 's diary, as it first became publicly accessible through her trial, has recently been viewed in relation to the emerging phenomena of scandal writing and sensation fiction. Michael Diamond has noted the...

MTL 's first effort at asserting the legality of her marriage was a petition for restitution of conjugal rights (addressed to the newly established Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes ). She launched it on...

When Henry Robinson discovered what he took to be evidence of his wife's adultery, he sought a divorce in the newly formed Divorce Court . This case was one of the first to be petitioned...

IHR 's diary acquired notoriety after it was found to contain details of her relationship with a younger, married doctor and after it was made public in the Divorce Court (at a moment when divorce...

The degree to which the new Divorce Court and the reportage which flowed from it publicized domestic violence may have in some measure encouraged CC to produce one of the more explicit representations of this...

Gender roles are explored in a range of ways throughout Adrienne Hope. Lord Charles's sophisticated sister has spent considerable time with men: her experience makes her wary of protestations of love. The woman writer...