Name: Decadent Divorce : Scandal and Sensation in Victorian Britain by Derham, Ruth
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Decadent Divorce : Scandal and Sensation in Victorian Britain by Derham, Ruth

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Author: Derham, Ruth

Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900

Published on 15 May 2024 by Amberley Publishing in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 288 pages, 8 Plates, colour
234 x 156 | 0g

On Thursday 11 January 1883, the new Royal Courts of Justice opened its doors for business. From that day forward a stream of dissatisfied spouses from all over the country passed through with their tales of marital woe. Their desperate attempts to prove their partners marital crimes to judge and jury unwittingly became something of a spectator sport; the most sensational, instructive or noteworthy stories were reported daily in copious detail by Fleet Streets eager press. The great causes clbres revealed stories of decadence and disregard, arrogance and entitlement; the faults and foibles of an aristocracy that had once held reverence as a birthright exposed to a growing and increasingly scathing middle- and

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Decadent Divorce : Scandal and Sensation in Victorian Britain by Derham, Ruth