In bed with the Victorians: the life-cycle of working-class marriage

This text examines the life-cycle of Victorian working-class marriage through a study of the hitherto hidden marital bed.

Using coroners' inquests to gain intimate access to the working-class home and its inhabitants, it explores their marital, quasi-marital, and post-marital beds to reveal the material, domestic, and emotional experience of working-class marriage during everyday life and at times of crisis.