Breaking Conventions Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

• Prif Awdur: Auspos, Patricia (auth)
• Fformat: Electronig Pennod Llyfr
• Iaith: Saesneg
• Cyhoeddwyd: Cambridge Open Book Publishers 2023
• Pynciau: Gender studies: women; Family law: marriage & divorce; Dating, relationships, living together & marriage; Sociology: family & relationships; History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; North America; United Kingdom, Great Britain; relationships;gender;marriage;profession;letters;journals;autobiography;social dynamics;masculinity;women
• Mynediad Ar-lein: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This rich history illuminates the lives and partnerships of five married couples - two British, three American - whose unions defied the conventions of their time and anticipated social changes that were to come in the ensuing century. In all five marriages, both husband and wife enjoyed thriving pr...