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Index of works about the Victorian debate around the permissibility of a widower re-marrying his deceased wife's sister. Such marriages were illegal in the UK from 1835–1907.
Works
UK Parliment
Legislation
- Marriage Act 1835
- Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907
- Deceased Brother's Widow's Marriage Act 1921
Commission
- (1848) First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the State and Operation of the Law of Marriage, as Relating to the Prohibited Degrees of Affinity (transcription project)
- (1849) Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister: Evidence Given Before the Commission
Speeches
Legal opinions
Discussions
- (1880) Canadian opinions on the bill introduced into the Dominion Parliament by Desiré Girouard, Esq., M.P., (Jacques-Cartier), legalizing marriage with the sister of a deceased wife, and with the widow of a brother
- (1888) Proceedings of the Colonial Conference: Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister
Tracts
- (1816) A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man with his Sister-in-Law
- (1859) The Ancient Interpretation of Leviticus XVIII. 18: Holding that Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister is Lawful
- (1866) Catholics and the Marriages Bill
- (1869) Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister: Leviticus XVIII. 18 Considered in Connection with the Law of the Levirate
- (1871) Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister (1871)
Against
- (1844) Unlawful Marriage: The Lawfulness of the Marriage of a Man with his Deceased Wife's Sister
- (1849) A Short Treatise on the Proposed Repeal of the Law which Prohibits Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister
- (1849) Against Profane Dealing with Holy Matrimony: In Regard of a Man and His Wife's Sister
- (1858) Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister in a Social Point of View Inexpedient and Unnatural
- (1868) Marriage with a deceased wife's sister prohibited by the word of God
- (1869) A Vindication of the Law Prohibiting Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister
- (1880) May a Man Marry His Deceased Wife's Sister?
- (1880) On the Attempt Made to Legalise the Marriage of a Widower with his Late Wife's Sister
- (1883) Is Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Lawful?
- (1883) Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister: An Address Delivered at a Meeting of Scottish Churchmen
- (1885) Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister or With a Niece Contrary to the Holy Law of God
- (1912) Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister
In favour of
- (1845) Remarks on the Law Regarding Marriage with the Sister of a Deceased Wife
- (1849) Letters in Favour of a Repeal of the Law which Prohibits Marriage with the Sister of a Deceased Wife
- (1851) For the Exclusive Object of Promoting the Passing of an Act to Render Lawful Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister
- (1878) A Wife to Her Sister
- (1881) Affinity No Bar to Marriage
Fiction
- (1849) The Consequences of Marrying a Deceased Wife's Sister
- (1872) Hannah
- (1885) Vexed; or, The Wife's Sister