For Better, For Worse —— British Marriages, 1600 to the Present

----- 为了更好，更糟：英国婚姻，1600到现在

ISBN: 9780195036145 出版年：1985 页码：430 Gillis, John R Oxford University Press

This ambitious study presents a comprehensive history of marriage from the seventeenth century to the present day. John Gillis draws on evidence from folk lore and ritual, wedding rites, and the personal accounts of men and women, to illustrate in rich detail the perpetual difference between the ideal of marriage and the actual reality.