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Title: The Trial of John Hart, Esq. Alderman of London; for Adultery and Cruelty . . . That, among Variety of Ingenious Refinements upon Cruelty, the Alderman extinguished Mrs. Hart's Fires in the coldest Weather . . . kicked and dragged her about [etc.]
Description: London Printed for G. Lister, No. 46, Old Bailey 1780. Modern cloth-backed boards, quite fresh, with the three panel frontispiece graphically depicting several of Hart's cruelties towards his wife. ¶ A rare account of a classic case of physical and mental cruelty (a genre not often reported), including forced seclusion, attempted strangulation, and physical blows of many different sorts, leading to the modern equivalent of a judicial separation

Keywords: adultery trials women's law