Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England
''You are a nasty bloody thundering whore,'' one Gloucester woman said to another in 1852. Most lawyers and historians are surprised to learn that until 1855 language of this sort was punishable in the ecclesiastical courts.
In a study based on court records and lawyers'' correspondence, Stephen Waddams shows how the law worked not only in theory but in practice. He concludes that, though this bra...
''You are a nasty bloody thundering whore,'' one Gloucester woman said to another in 1852. Most lawyers and historians are surprised to learn that until 1855 language of this sort was punishable in the ecclesiastical courts.
In a study based on court records and lawyers'' correspondence, Stephen Waddams shows how the law worked not only in theory but in practice. He concludes that, though this bra...
