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Breach of Promise to Marry: A History of How Jilted Brides Settled Scores
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Denise Bates
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Publisher
Pen & Sword
Publication date
April 19, 2014
Pages
192
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781783030361
ISBN-10
1783030364
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight
0.80 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$24.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 'The marriage day was fixed, the wedding dresses were bought, the wedding tour was planned out, the wedding guests were invited. The day came but not the bridegroom...'
While Dickens' embittered spinster Miss Havisham stopped all her clocks on her wedding day and 'never since looked upon the light of day', the reality was much brighter for thousands of jilted women. The real Miss Havisham's didn't mope in faded wedding finery â they hired lawyers and struck the first 'no-win, no fee' deals to sue for breach of promise.
From the 1790s right up to the 1960s, jilted women (and sometimes rejected suitors) employed a range of tactics to bring false lovers to book. Denise Bates uncovers over 1,000 forgotten cases of women who found very different endings to their fictional counterparts:
Mary Ann Smith forged evidence of a courtship to entrap an Earl. Catherine Kempsall shot the man who denied their engagement, Gladys Knowles was awarded a record £10,000 in damages by a jury in 1890, Daisy Mons discreetly negotiated a £50,000 settlement from a Lord
Based on original research, this social history of breach of promise shows that when men behaved badly hell had no fury like a woman scorned!
While Dickens' embittered spinster Miss Havisham stopped all her clocks on her wedding day and 'never since looked upon the light of day', the reality was much brighter for thousands of jilted women. The real Miss Havisham's didn't mope in faded wedding finery â they hired lawyers and struck the first 'no-win, no fee' deals to sue for breach of promise.
From the 1790s right up to the 1960s, jilted women (and sometimes rejected suitors) employed a range of tactics to bring false lovers to book. Denise Bates uncovers over 1,000 forgotten cases of women who found very different endings to their fictional counterparts:
Mary Ann Smith forged evidence of a courtship to entrap an Earl. Catherine Kempsall shot the man who denied their engagement, Gladys Knowles was awarded a record £10,000 in damages by a jury in 1890, Daisy Mons discreetly negotiated a £50,000 settlement from a Lord
Based on original research, this social history of breach of promise shows that when men behaved badly hell had no fury like a woman scorned!
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9781783030361 | details & prices | 192 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $24.95
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