Alienated Affections

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Alienated Affections is Leah Leneman's freshest and most fascinating work yet. Leneman has put together fascinating material, and written a very interesting book. -- Jenny Wormald This vivid and lively study by the late Leah Leneman has all the strengths of her pioneering work in women's history and Scottish social history over the last twelve years. Alienated Affections uses a previously entirely neglected, but extremely rich source, the records of the Edinburgh Commissary Court to explore this history of divorce and separation in in Scotland. Alienated Affections is Leah Leneman's freshest and most fascinating work yet. Leneman has put together fascinating material, and written a very interesting book. This vivid and lively study by the late Leah Leneman has all the strengths of her pioneering work in women's history and Scottish social history over the last twelve years. Alienated Affections uses a previously entirely neglected, but extremely rich source, the records of the Edinburgh Commissary Court to explore this history of divorce and separation in in Scotland.