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MARRIAGE NORTH OF THE BORDER.
Leah Leneman describes the traps for the unwary caused by the marriage laws of 18th-century Scotland. EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT Gretna Green....
History Today, 04/01/00 by Leneman, Leah · More from publication -
"No Unsuitable Match": Defining Rank In Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland
"Could seduction be expressed in more explicite terms, than by taking advantage of opportunities to use freedoms with a young female his own equal...
Journal of Social History, 03/22/00 by Leah Leneman · More from publication -
Weep Not for Me: Women, Ballads, and Infanticide in Early Modern Scotland. - Review - book reviews
By Deborah A. Symonds (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xxi plus 289pp. $44.00/cloth $18.95/paperback)....
Journal of Social History, 09/22/99 by Leah Leneman · More from publication -
'Disregarding the matrimonial vows': divorce in eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Scotland
If marriage is the most important commitment in the life of most human beings, its dissolution is therefore traumatic, even in our own time, when...
Journal of Social History, 12/22/96 by Leah Leneman · More from publication -
Illegitimacy, Sex and Society: Northeast Scotland, 1750-1900
By Andrew Blaikie (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 268pp. $55.00). By Andrew Blaikie (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 268pp....
Journal of Social History, 09/22/95 by Leah Leneman · More from publication -
Clandestine marriage in the Scottish cities 1660-1780
After the Revolution of 1688-89 several hundred unemployed ex-ministers, willing and able to conduct clandestine marriages, gravitated to the...
Journal of Social History, 06/22/93 by Leah Leneman · More from publication
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