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{{italic title}}A History of Marriage, published by Seven Stories Press, is a non-fiction book by Elizabeth Abbott, the Canadian author of A History of Celibacy (1999) and A History of Mistresses (2003) that combines general history and personal histories of marriage. The book is a study of mostly North American rituals of courting, nuptials, marriage, sex, child-raising and divorce. Some topics covered are relative ages at which various societies from Chinese to Mormon married off their girls; details of the satisfying marriage of Martin Luther and former nun Katharina von Bora; the ruptured family units of Native American children removed to residential schools; the popularity of so-called Boston marriages (depicted by Henry James in The Bostonians) between like-minded women who resisted conventional marriage but weren't necessarily lesbian; and the scarcity of sponges used for contraception by Northern women during the Civil War because of the cut-off in supply from Florida.[1] A History of Marriage was a finalist for the 2010 Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction.[2]A paperback edition was published in August 2015 by Seven Stories Press.[3] References 1. ^Kirkus Reviews March 1st, 2011
2. ^Canada Council for the Arts. {{cite web|url=http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla/2010/default.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-04-22 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514140711/http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla/2010/default.htm |archivedate=2011-05-14 |df= }}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.sevenstories.com/books/2828-a-history-of-marriage |title=A History of Marriage | Seven Stories Press |publisher=Sevenstories.com |date= |accessdate=2017-05-09}}
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