Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England : : Defamation in The Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815-1855 / / S.M. Waddams.
'You are a nasty bloody thundering whore,' one Gloucester woman said to another in 1852. Most lawyers and historians are surprised to learn that until 1855 language of this sort was punishable in the ecclesiastical courts. In a study based on court records and lawyers' correspondence,...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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