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Cruelty and Companionship stocks Gender oppression has been aCruelty and Companionshipis an account of the intimate but darker sides of marriage in Victorian and Edwardian England. Hammerton draws upon previously unpublished material from the records of the divorce court and magistrates' courts to challenge many popular views about changing family patterns His findings open a rare window onto the sexual politics of everyday life and the routine tensions which conditioned marriage in middle and working class