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Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
Date: 1952, 1st monthReference: 766851iPart of: Diagrams of the way of marriage.- Books
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The forced marriage, A Tragedy. Written in the Year MDCCLIV.
Armstrong, John, 1709-1779.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Pictures
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A young woman is sitting in a chair with a tapestry in a frame in front of her, trying to be distracted from the thought of her forced marriage. Engraving by W.H. Simmons, 1840, after J.H. Nixon.
Nixon, James Henry, approximately 1808-Date: 1840Reference: 29994i- Ephemera
Homophobia, homeless with children, older people, transphobia, refuge, rent deposit schemes, sofa surfing, street homeless, landlord disputes, harassment, youth, co-ops, repossesion, forced marriage, eviction, biphobia, succesion, domestic abuse / Stonewall Housing.
Date: [2010]- Ephemera
Homophobia, refuge, homeless with children, harassment, older people, youth, transphobia, eviction, co-ops, landlord disputes, street homeless, repossesion, forced marriage, rent deposit schemes, sofa surfing, succesion, domestic abuse, biphobia / Stonewall Housing.
Date: [2010]- Books
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The silk mercer's daughter's garland: shewing how a silk mercer's daughter of London fell in love with her father's porter; her Father Forced him to sea to prevent Marriage; she, dressed in Man's apparel, went after him; when at Sea, for Want of Food they cast Lots which should die to feed the Rest; how she made herself known, their Delivery from Death, Return, and happy Marriage. To which is added, two excellent songs, viz. 1. Sure Sally in the loveliest lass. 2. The drowsy maid.
Date: [1790?]- Books
Charity and Sylvia : a same-sex marriage in early America / Rachel Hope Cleves.
Cleves, Rachel Hope, 1975-Date: [2014]- Pictures
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A young woman is weeping as she is being offered in marriage by her mother to a old, lame man. Engraving by J. Goldar after J. Collet, 1767.
Collet, John, 1725?-1780.Date: Octr. 15th 1767Reference: 27536i- Books
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A treatise concerning the use and abuse of the marriage bed: shewing I. The nature of matrimony, its sacred original, and the true meaning of its institution. II. The gross abuse of matrimonial chastity, from the wrong notions which have possessed the world, degenerating even to whoredom. III. The diabolical practice of attempting to prevent child-bearing by physical preparations. IV. The fatal Consequences of clandestine or forced Marriages, thro' the Persuasion, Interest, or Influence of Parents and Relations, to wed the Person they have no Love for, but oftentimes an Aversion to. V. Of unequal Matches, as to the Disproportion of Age; and how such, many ways, occasion a Matrimonial Whoredom. VI. How married persons may be guilty of conjugal lewdness, and that a man may, in effect, make a whore of his own wife. Also, many other particulars of family concern.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- Books
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Matrimony analysed. Wherein is proposed a free and candid inquiry into the force of the objections against the late Act of Parliament for the better preventing clandestine marriages. Addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Holdernesse. By Sir Tanfield Leman, Baronet.
Leman, Tanfield, Sir, 1714-1762.Date: 1755- Books
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The Cat-skin Garland, in five parts. 1. Of a Squir's daughter near London, who being by her father's cruelty forced from home, made herself a garment of cat-skins in which she wandered, carrying her rich attire and jewels under her arm. 2. How one evening she came to a knights door, and begged to lie in the stable, which was granted and how she was afterwards entertain'd in the house. 3. The comical passage that happened between cat-skin and the lady's son. 4. In what manner he catched cat-skin in her rich attire, fell in love with her, seigned himself sick, to get his parents consent, and would have cat-skin for his nurse. With an account of their marriage. 5. How after the death of her mother and sister, the father disguised like a begger came to the gate for meat, and how for her kind entertainment of him, he gave her a portion of ten thousand pounds.
Date: Printed in the year, 1762- Books
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Some observations on two pamphlets lately published; the one entitled, An enquiry into the force and operation of the annulling clauses in a late act for the better preventing of clandestine marriages, &c. The other, A dissertation on the power of states to deny civil protection to the marriage of minors &c. In a letter to a friend.
Ibbetson, James, 1717-1781.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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Considerations upon the institution of marriage. With some thoughts concerning the force and obligation of the matrimonial contract. Wherein is considered, How far divorces may, or ought to be allowed. By a Gentleman. Humbly submitted to the Judgment of the Impartial.
Booth, George, Earl of Warrington.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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A letter from the Rev. John Roe, minister of the Protestant Dissenters at Calverton, near Nottingham. Concerning the imprisonment of their wives, for life, for nonconformity to the Church of England, by force of the writ excommunicato capiendo. Addressed to the Rt. Hon. Ld. Geoe Gordon, president of the Protestant Association.
Roe, John, approximately 1736-approximately 1824.Date: Printed in the year 1789- Books
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Some observations on two pamphlets lately published; the one entitled, An enquiry into the Force and operation of the annulling clauses in a late act for the better preventing of clandestine marriages, &c. The other, A dissertation on the power of states to deny civil protection to the marriage of minors &c. In a letter to a friend. The second edition. With an appendix, containing a reply to the Rev. Doctor Stebbing's remarks on observations, &c. By James Ibbetson, D. D. Archdeacon of St Alban.
Ibbetson, James, 1717-1781.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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A vindication of the power of states to prohibit clandestine marriages under the pain of absolute nullity; particularly the marriages of minors, made without the consent of their parents or guardians: in answer to the Rev. Dr. Stebbing's Dissertation on the power of states to deny civil protection to the marriages of minors, etc. with occasional remarks on An enquiry into the force and operation of the annulling clauses in a late act for the better preventing of clandestine marriages, with respect to conscience. In a letter to the Doctor. By James Tunstall, D. D. Rector of Great Charte in Kent.
Tunstall, James, 1708-1762.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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A good wife a great blessing: or, the honour and happiness of the marriage state, in two sermons. Containing, An Account of the Marriage in Paradise. -Of the Apostles. Of the honourable and happy State of Matrimony. Marriage never condemned but by Hereticks. That forbidding to marry is one of the Doctrine of Devils. St. Paul's Opinion whether it is better for Virgins to marry or live single. Of forcing Virgins to marry. That Adam could not live happy even in Paradise without a Wife. Of the Duties of a Wife. The Advantages of a married Man above a Batchelor. The Benefits of a prudent Wife. Women not to be accounted a necessary Evil, but a great Blessing. How a good Wife ought to be treated. How Men ought to love their Wives. Of hindering Wives from Money. Of Marriages between People of different Religions.
Creffield, Edward, 1679 or 1680-1759.Date: [1717?]- Books
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Le mariage forcé. Comedie. Par Monsieur De Moliere. The Forc'd Marriage. A comedy. From the French of Moliere.
Molière, 1622-1673.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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The clergy's plea for settled and forced maintenance from the quakers, By tithes, offerings, oblations, fees for marriages, baptism, alias rantism, burials, &c. Examined, and proved to be contrary to scripture, right reason, and the laws and canons of the church. And also inconsistent with their oaths against simony, and of canonical obedience; which, with pluralities and non-residence, are, and will continue to be, a very great scandal to the established church, until the legislature please to reform the same. By Philalethes.
Besse, Joseph, 1683?-1757.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Pictures
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An episode in 'Rookwood', a novel by W. Harrison Ainsworth: Luke Bradley, who is threatening Eleanor Mowbray with a dagger, is himself threatened by Ranulph Rookwood with a sword, but Ranulph is suddenly restrained by Dick Turpin. Line engraving by W. Greatbach after J. Cawse, 1837.
Cawse, John, 1779-1862.Date: 1837Reference: 42887i- Videos
Medieval lives : birth, marriage, death. 2/3, A good marriage.
Date: 2013- Archives and manuscripts
Miscellaneous reprints on sex education, birth control and marriage guidance
Date: 1930s-1960sReference: PP/EFG/A.50Part of: Griffith, Edward Fyfe (1895-1987)- Archives and manuscripts
Marriage Guidance Working Party / Marriage Matters
Date: 1973-1980Reference: SA/TCC/C/2Part of: Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships- Books
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The fatality of forc'd marriage. Exemplified in some circumstances of the life of a Neapolitan woman of quality. With additional poems by the same hand.
Date: printed in the Year M.DCC.XLI. [1741]- Books
Love wins : the lovers and lawyers who fought the landmark case for marriage equality / Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell.
Cenziper, DebbieDate: [2016]