Cover art for The Marriage Knot
Published
Uwa Publishing, March 2013
ISBN
9781742585215
Format
Softcover, 192 pages
Dimensions
23.5cm × 15.5cm

The Marriage Knot Marriage & divorce in colonial Western Australia by

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In this fascinating book, renowned WA historian Penelope Hetherington turns her analytical gaze to marriage and divorce in colonial Western Australia. The Marriage Knot ends the confusion about religious arrangements and disagreements in the first thirty years of the colony and along the way, reveals the kinds of marriage registration instigated by the government and other aspects of its marriage laws.

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