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• Irregular Unions: Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Katharine Cleland (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Allen F. Stein (PDF at Ohio State)
• Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, c2005), by Lisa A. Surridge (PDF at ohioswallow.com)
• Imoinda's Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Lyndon Janson Dominique (PDF at Ohio State)
• Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Warren S. Smith (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)
• A New Map for Relationships: Creating True Love at Home and Peace on the Planet (New Map Publishing, c2016), by Dorothie Hellman and Martin Hellman (PDF at Stanford)
• Marriage and the American Ideal (1960), by Floyd Mansfield Martinson (HTML and PDF at ipce.info)
• The Man for Her (c1957), by Leo J. Kinsella (HTML at EWTN)
• The Wife Desired (Techny, IL: Divine Word Publications, c1954), by Leo J. Kinsella (HTML at EWTN)
• When You Marry (revised edition; New York: Association Press, c1953), by Evelyn Millis Duvall and Reuben Hill, contrib. by Sylvanus Milne Duvall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Asian Cross-Border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues (2010), ed. by Wen-Shan Yang and Melody Chia-Wen Lu (page images at Google)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes (study guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes: A Handbook for Administrators and Teachers Who Use the Accompanying Study Guide (teacher's guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Pick a Mate: The Guide to a Happy Marriage (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1946), by Clifford R. Adams and Vance Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Can War Marriages Be Made to Work? (1944), by Clifford Kirkpatrick (illustrated HTML at historians.org)
• Predicting Success or Failure in Marriage (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1939), by E. W. Burgess and Leonard S. Cottrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morals and Marriage: The Catholic Background to Sex (1936), by Thomas Gilby (HTML at EWTN)
• What is Right With Marriage: An Outline of Domestic Theory (New York: D. Appleton, 1929), by Robert C. Binkley and Frances Williams Binkley (multiple formats with commentary at wallandbinkley.com)
• The Family, as Process and Institution (New York: Ronald Press Co., c1955), by Clifford Kirkpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Happiness and Marriage (1904), by Elizabeth Towne (Gutenberg text)
• How to be Happy Though Married: Being a Handbook to Marriage (seventh and popular edition; London: T. F. Unwin, 1887), by E. J. Hardy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Intimate Marriage, by Howard Clinebell and Charlotte H. Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Love, Marriage, and Divorce, and the Sovereignty of the Individual: A Discussion Between Henry James, Horace Greeley, and Stephen Pearl Andrews (Boston: B. R. Tucker, 1889), by Stephen Pearl Andrews, contrib. by Henry James and Horace Greeley
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Marriage and the Home: A Series of Twenty-One Sunday Evening Lectures (c1896), by T. W. McVety, contrib. by John W. Cook and L. Kirtly
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Marriage in Free Society (1894), by Edward Carpenter (Gutenberg text)
• Marriage in Free Society (Manchester, UK: Labour Press Society, 1894), by Edward Carpenter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Marriage Is For Love, by Richard L. Strauss (HTML at bible.org)
• The Modern Marriage Market, by Marie Corelli, Susan Mary Elizabeth Stewart-Mackenzie Jeune, Flora Annie Webster Steel, and Susan Malmesbury (HTML at Indiana)
• Observations of a Bachelor (New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Louis Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
• One Woman's Experience of Emancipation (published in or after 1898), by Caroline Fairfield Corbin (page images at HathiTrust)
• One Woman's Experience of Emancipation (fourth edition, ca. 1904), by Caroline Fairfield Corbin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Perfect Matrimony (English translation), by Samael Aun Weor (HTML with commentary at glorian.org)
• The Physiology of Marriage, by Honoré de Balzac (Gutenberg text)
• Search Lights on Health, Light on Dark Corners: A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice to Maiden, Wife and Mother, Love, Courtship and Marriage (Toronto: J.L. Nichols, ca. 1894), by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasion'd by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's Case; Which is Also Considered (first edition; London: Printed for J. Nutt, 1700), by Mary Astell (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage; With Additions (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Parker, 1730), by Mary Astell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on the Christian Doctrine of Marriage, by Hugh Davey Evans (page images at MOA)
• Tried as by Fire: or, The True and the False, Socially (New York: Woodhull and Claflin, 1874), by Victoria C. Woodhull (page images at sc.edu)
• Über die Ehe (fourth edition, in German; Berlin: Voss, 1793), by Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (multiple formats at Google)
• The History and Philosophy of Marriage: or, Polygamy and Monogamy Compared (Boston: James Campbell, 1869), by E. N. Jencks (HTML with commentary at truthbearer.org)
• Know Thyself: or, Nature's Secrets Revealed (Marietta, OH: The S. A. Mullikin Co., 1911), by Samuel Fallows and W. J. Truitt (multiple formats at Google)
• Marriage and Love (New York: Mother Earth Pub. Assn., 1911), by Emma Goldman (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and zipped page images)
• Nuptiae Sacrae, Or, An Inquiry Into the Scriptual Doctrine of Marriage and Divorce: Addressed to the Two Houses of Parliament (London: John Murray, 1821), by John Ireland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Things (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by Elinor Glyn (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Harmonics of Evolution: The Philosophy of Individual Life, Based Upon Natural Science, as Taught by Modern Masters of the Law (first volume of Harmonic Series, 10th edition; Chicago: Indo-American book company, 1910), by Florence Huntley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Essays of Love and Virtue (London: A. and C. Black, 1922), by Havelock Ellis (Gutenberg text)
• Sex and Common-Sense (based on the third English edition, 1922), by A. Maude Royden (Gutenberg text)
• The Family Monitor and Domestic Guide (uniform American edition of The Women of England, The Daughters of England, The Wives of England, and The Mothers of England; New York: E. Walker, ca. 1844), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Say It With Oil: A Few Remarks About Wives; Say It With Bricks: A Few Remarks About Husbands (a double volume, with the two works on opposite sides; New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Ring Lardner and Nina Wilcox Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nullity of Marriage (1959 edition), by F. J. Sheed (HTML at EWTN)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.