Man and Wife

Rosalind Mitchison

  • Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction 1300-1840 by Alan Macfarlane
    Blackwell, 380 pp, £19.50, January 1986, ISBN 0 631 13992 3
  • For Better, For Worse: British Marriages 1600 to the Present by John Gillis
    Oxford, 417 pp, £19.50, February 1986, ISBN 0 19 503614 X
  • Labour and Love: Women’s Experience of Home and Family 1850-1940 edited by Jane Lewis
    Blackwell, 274 pp, £25.00, February 1986, ISBN 0 631 13957 5

Marriage is still, despite evasive strategies by some of the young, the central decision of most people’s lives, and of the three events which structure population, the only one completely under human control. The control is not exclusively that of the leading participants: who is free to marry whom, for example, is defined by law. But for the most part the Western European marriage has been the result of a deliberate choice by two people.

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