Sammelband of Seven Pamphlets Bound in Half-Leather: A Chapter of Autobiography.; Some Observations on Educational Administration in India, in a Letter to the Right Hon. Sir Stafford H. Northcote; Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Forbidden by the Laws of God; A Pastoral for the Times after the Manner of Virgil's Pollio; Marriage Affinity Question: Being a Speech Delivered at a Meeting in Queen Street Hall, Edinburgh, on 2nd February, and in Substance Re-Delivered at a Meeting in Willis's Rooms, London, on 16th February, 1871. with Appendix.; Unlawfulness of Marriage with the Sister of a Deceased Wife; The Relationships which Bar Marriage Considered Scripturally, Socially, and Historically: Being a Respectful Address to the Nonconformist Ministers of England by Ministers of the Presbyterian Churches of Scotland; Letter to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh on the Sanitary State of the City
London / Edinburgh / Cambridge: John Murray / Thomas Constable / W. Metcalfe / Hamilton, Adams, & Co. / Darling and Co. / Edmonston & Douglas, 1868. Half-Leather. Good / No Jacket. Item #2330987
Neatly rebacked with original boards retained, bound in sheet with handwritten contents that are now inaccurate (this volume once contained thirteen pamphlets, some on this list are absent). 'The Relationships which Bar Marriage' inscribed 'With Dr. Browns kind regards' - possibly Charles J. Brown, author of Marriage Affinity Question.
63, 15, 10, 16, 15, 16, 47 pp. A collection of short works published 1868-71, mostly dedicated to legislation surrounding marriage. The restriction referenced to marrying the sister of one's deceased wife was reversed in 1907 in the United Kingdom, after prolonged conflict in the courts beginning in the 1840s. During this time several novels, including William Clark Russell's anonymously published The Deceased Wife's Sister, treated the topic. It is fleetingly referenced in Tess of the d'Urbervilles as well.
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