A History of Marriage

A History of Marriage, published by Seven Stories Press, is a non-fiction book by Elizabeth Abbott, the Canadian author of A History of Celibacy (1999) and A History of Mistresses (2003) that combines general history and personal histories of marriage. The book is a study of mostly North American rituals of courting, nuptials, marriage, sex, child-raising and divorce. Some topics covered are relative ages at which various societies from Chinese to Mormon married off their girls; details of the satisfying marriage of Martin Luther and former nun Katharina von Bora; the ruptured family units of Native American children removed to residential schools; the popularity of so-called Boston marriages (depicted by Henry James in The Bostonians) between like-minded women who resisted conventional marriage but weren’t necessarily lesbian; and the scarcity of sponges used for contraception by Northern women during the Civil War because of the cut-off in supply from Florida.[1] A History of Marriage was a finalist for the 2010 Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction.[2]

A paperback edition is to be published in August 2015 by Seven Stories Press.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Kirkus Reviews March 1st, 2011.
  2. ↑ Canada Council for the Arts. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
  3. ↑ http://catalog.sevenstories.com/products/a-history-of-marriage


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