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Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth-Century Britain explores the vexed question of
middle-class respectability in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. It
focuses upon the life of London solicitor Hamilton Pawley
(1860-1936), who was barred from working by the Law Society, twice
declared bankrupt, and in 1919 was sentenced to eighteen months'
imprisonment with hard labour for bigamously marrying a woman
practically forty years his junior. If Pawley did not suffer the
revenge of respectable society, it is difficult to think who would.
Drawing upon the fact that the disgraced and the disreputable have
always tended to attract a disproportionate amount of attention,
the book ranges widely, exploring such important issues as
middle-class education, career choices, the dynamics of family
life, and the workings of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth-century legal system. It shows that Pawley was able to
hold on to his professional - and even gentlemanly - status for far
longer than seemed likely. This all suggests, the book concludes,
that although respectability was as important to the middle class
as we have always been told, it was both easier to acquire and
easier to retain than we have generally been led to believe. This
book will appeal to all those interested in British society in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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