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A Banbury story : cohabitation and marriage among the Victorian poor in notorious Neithrop
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Probert, Rebecca (2012) A Banbury story : cohabitation and marriage among the Victorian poor in notorious Neithrop. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Warwick School of Law Research Paper (Number 2012/01).
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Abstract
The parish of Neithrop, now a suburb of Banbury, was known in the nineteenth century as a place ‘inhabited by the poor and persons of bad character’ and, according to the demographer Peter Laslett, was an area ‘notorious’ for non-marital arrangements. Drawn to investigate further by the tragic story of Susan Owen, allegedly murdered by the man she was living, ‘Badger’ Willson, and by the suggestion that five out of a row of eight houses were inhabited by cohabiting couples, I discovered a very different picture. Not only did it turn out that neither of these specific claims was true, but the high rate of marriage among Neithrop couples also cast doubt on the widespread assumption that cohabitation was common among the Victorian poor.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||
Series Name: | Warwick School of Law Research Paper | ||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick | ||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||
Official Date: | 16 January 2012 | ||||
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Number: | Number 2012/01 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 17 | ||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
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