The Online Books Page

Husband and wife

Here are entered works on legal relations between husband and wife. Works on the legal relations between spouses, regardless of gender, are entered under Spouses -- Legal status, laws, etc. Works on the legal status of women during marriage, and on the effect of marriage on their legal capacity, are entered under Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Domestic relations
• Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.

• Marriage law
• Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc.

• Husband and wife -- Canada
• Husband and wife -- Drama
• Husband and wife -- Fiction
• Husband and wife -- Great Britain
• Husband and wife -- Juvenile fiction
• Husband and wife -- Juvenile poetry
• Husband and wife -- Ontario
• Husband and wife -- Rhode Island
• Husband and wife -- United States
• Conflict of laws -- Husband and wife
• Divorce -- Law and legislation
• Dowry
• Marital property

• Husband and wife -- Law and legislation
• Man and wife
• Spouses (Husband and wife) -- Legal status, laws, etc.
• Wife and husband

• Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage (c2014), by Renata Grossi (multiple formats at ANU E Press)

• The Canadian, Photoplay Title of The Land of Promise: A Novelization of W. Somerset Maugham's Play (with pictures from the photoplay; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by D. Torbett, contrib. by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Married Women's Property Acts of Ontario (Toronto: Willing & Williamson, 1874), by Richard Thomas Walkem (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Die Hose: Ein Bürgerliches Lustspiel (in German; Berlin: P. Cassirer, 1911), by Carl Sternheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• From Different Standpoints (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1878), by Isabella Macdonald Alden and Faye Huntington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Modern Griselda: A Tale (third edition, corrected; London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co., 1813), by Maria Edgeworth
  • HTML at Gutenberg Canada
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Weighed in the Balance (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1869), by Sarah Stuart Robbins (multiple formats at Google)
• Mr. and Mrs. Cugat: The Record of a Happy Marriage (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1940), by Isabel Scott Rorick, illust. by Floyd A. Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thread of Flame (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1920), by Basil King (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Thread of Flame (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1920), by Basil King (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Yellow Poppy (third impression; London: Duckworth, 1926), by D. K. Broster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Orchids to Murder (c1945), by Hulbert Footner, contrib. by Christopher Morley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Sally, Mrs. Tubbs (Boston: Lothrop Pub. Co., 1903), by Margaret Sidney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Masquerader, by Katherine Cecil Thurston (Gutenberg text)

• The Pearl of Lima: A Story of True Love, by Jules Verne, trans. by Anne T. Wood (Gutenberg text)

• English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana
• A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana

• Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle (Boston: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1895), by Charles Nodier, trans. by Minna Caroline Smith
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Silver Keys: A Tale (London and Edinburgh: Gall and Inglis, ca. 1872), by A. L. O. E., illust. by S. Miller (page images at Florida)
• The Snowball (New York: Merriam Co., c1895), by Stanley John Weyman
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Three Wise Old Couples (London et al.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., c1881), by Elizabeth T. Corbett, illust. by Livingston Hopkins (page images at ufl.edu)
• Grandma's Attic Treasures: A Story of Old-Time Memories (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co.; London: Griffith and Farran, 1882), by Mary D. Brine, illust. by George T. Andrew (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Legal Status of Homemakers in Rhode Island (Washington: Homemakers Committee, National Commission on the Observance on International Women's Year, 1977), by Sheila Cabral-Sousa and Mildred White Tracey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marital Property in Conflict of Laws (Seattle: University of Washington Press, c1952), by Harold Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana
• A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana

• A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton (HTML at Indiana)

• A Treatise on the Law of Settlements of Property, Made Upon Marriage and Other Occasions (2 volumes; London: H. Sweet and Co., et al, 1887), by John Savill Vaizey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Collection of Precedents and Forms, with References and Additions to "A Treatise on the Law of Settlements" (London: H. Sweet and Sons, 1888), by John Savill Vaizey (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act (online edition, 2011), by Native American Rights Fund (HTML and PDF with commentary at narf.org)

• The Campbell Divorce Bill; Women's Rights on Ontario; Parliament As a Court of Justice: Speech of the Hon. Wm. MacDougall, Counsel for Mrs. Campbell, Before the Committee of the Senate, Taken in Short Hand, by William MacDougall (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dota Sub Raportul Înstreinărei (in Romanian; Bârlad: Const. D. Lupașcu, 1913), by Joan J. Jonescu
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage (c2014), by Renata Grossi (multiple formats at ANU E Press)
• Colasterion, by John Milton (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, by John Milton (HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• Marriage Rites, Customs, and Ceremonies, of the Nations of the Universe (London: J. Smith, 1822), by Augusta Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tetrachordon, by John Milton (illustrated HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)

• English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana
• A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana

• A Treatise on the Law of Settlements of Property, Made Upon Marriage and Other Occasions (2 volumes; London: H. Sweet and Co., et al, 1887), by John Savill Vaizey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Collection of Precedents and Forms, with References and Additions to "A Treatise on the Law of Settlements" (London: H. Sweet and Sons, 1888), by John Savill Vaizey (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Treatise on the Law Relating to Marriages in Lower Canada (Montreal: Printed by J. Lovell, 1857), by James Sherrard Armstrong (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Statistical Analysis of American Divorce (Studies in History, Economics and Public Law #360; New York: Columbia University Press; London: P. S. King and Son, 1932), by Alfred Cahen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Law for the Clergy, by Sanford A. Hudson (page images at MOA)

• Proceedings Upon the Trial of the Action Brought by Mary Elizabeth Smith Against the Right Hon. Washington Sewallis Shirley Earl Ferrers, for Breach of Promise of Marriage (London: W. Pickering, 1846), contrib. by Mary Elizabeth Smith and Washington Sewallis Shirley Ferrers (page images at HathiTrust)

• And They Built a Crooked House, by Ruth S. Martin
  • frame-dependent HTML at Lakeside Press
  • simpler HTML at Lakeside Press

• The Tragedy of Jane Shore (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714), by Nicholas Rowe (page images here at Penn)

• Sister Carrie (restored text; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981), by Theodore Dreiser, ed. by John C. Berkey, Alice M. Winters, James L. W. West, and Neda M. Westlake (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Idalia, or, The Unfortunate Mistress: A Novel (third edition; London: Dan Browne, 1725), by Eliza Fowler Haywood (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Sooner or Later: The Story of an Ingenious Ingénue (London: Chapman and Hall, 1904), by Violet Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)
• Sister Carrie (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1900), by Theodore Dreiser
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at Wayback Machine
• Sister Carrie (New York: B. W. Dodge and Co., 1907), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Orchids to Murder (c1945), by Hulbert Footner, contrib. by Christopher Morley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Mistress Nell Gwyn: A Novel (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alexander's Bridge, by Willa Cather
  • HTML at unl.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• The Fortunate Mistress: or, A History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana (from a "Works of Daniel Defoe" set, with a posthumously published continuation, and an introduction by Maynadier; New York: G. D. Sproul, 1908), by Daniel Defoe, contrib. by Howard Maynadier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Great Gatsby (first edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

More items available under broader and related terms at left.