‘The laws themselves must be wicked and imperfect’: The struggle for divorce in Mary Eliza Haweis’s A Flame of Fire

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Allen, L. 2018. ‘The laws themselves must be wicked and imperfect’: The struggle for divorce in Mary Eliza Haweis’s A Flame of Fire. in: For Better, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women New York Routledge. pp. 130-141
AuthorsAllen, L.
KeywordsHaweis; Women's writing; Victorian literature
Page range130-141
Year2018
Book titleFor Better, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women
PublisherRoutledge
Output statusPublished
Place of publicationNew York
ISBN9781138285644
Publication dates
Print01 Sep 2017
Publication process dates
Deposited08 Aug 2022
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