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Modern Marriage and How to Bear It

by Maud Churton Braby

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Modern Marriage — And How to Bear It
  3. 3Downward
  4. 4T. Werner Laurie Clifford’s Inn — London Epigraph · Part I — Signs…
  5. 5II — Why Men Don’t Marry
  6. 6III — Why Women Don’t Marry
  7. 7IV — The Tragedy of the Undesired
  8. 8Part II — Causes of Failure
  9. 9I — The Various Kinds of Marriage
  10. 10II — Why We Fall Out: Divers Discords
  11. 11III — The Age to Marry
  12. 12IV — Wild Oats for Wives
  13. 13V — A Plea for the Wiser Training of Girls
  14. 14VI — ‘Keeping Only to Her’: The Crux of Matrimony
  15. 15Part III — Suggested Alternatives
  16. 16I — Leasehold Marriage à la Meredith
  17. 17II — Leasehold Marriage in Practice — A Dialogue in 1999
  18. 18III — The Fiasco of Free Love
  19. 19IV — Polygamy at the Polite Dinner-Table
  20. 20V — Is Legalised Polyandry the Solution?
  21. 21VI — A Word for Duogamy
  22. 22VII — The Advantages of the Preliminary Canter
  23. 23Part IV — Children — The Cul-de-Sac of All Reforms
  24. 24I — To Beget or Not to Beget — The Question of the Day
  25. 25II — The Pros and Cons of the Limited Family
  26. 26III — Parenthood: The Highest Destiny
  27. 27Part V — How to Be Happy Though Married
  28. 28I — A Few Suggestions for Reform
  29. 29II — Some Practical Advice to Husbands and Wives

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