Robert Chester
Biographic Data
| ID | 98897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Chester |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Chester |
| SIGNATURE | CHESTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Robert Chester's ‘Love's Martyr; Or, Rosalins Complaint': With its Supplement, ‘Diverse Poeticall Essaies on the Turtle and Phoenix'
The literary scholar Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827–99) reprinted this allegorical poem by Robert Chester (fl.c.1586–1604) with an introduction and notes in 1878. Grosart incorrectly identified the poem's author as a certain Sir Robert Chester of Royston. Later research suggests Chester served as a chaplain or secretary in the household of the work's dedicatee, Sir John Salusbury. Originally printed in 1601, the grandiloquent, meandering poem is…
SSRC Family Research Initiative
SSRC FAMILY RESEARCH INITIATIVE Get access R. Chester R. Chester Dept. of Social Administration, The University of Hull Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 16, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1983, Pages 191-b–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/16.1.191-b Published: 01 October 1983
Children and Marital Problems
The aim of this paper is to draw together within an evaluative framework British research‐based material concerning the impact of children, or the absence of children, on the quality and stability of the marriage relationship. The focus, therefore, is quite specific, and there is no attempt to review the whole corpus of literature on childbearing and child‐rearing. The relevant material is limited, fragmentary, and scattered across the literature…
Divorce and Separation: Context, Causes, and Consequences. George Levinger , Oliver C. Moles
Changing Patterns of Conception and Fertility
Divorce in Europe
Equalities and Inequalities in Family Life
Official Statistics and Family Sociology
In generating the data required for their purposes, sociologists of the family have often worked with official statistics. Instances need not be offered because they are so numerous, but reference to any textbook on the family, or to issues of this journal, indicates extensive use of census returns, registration data, judicial statistics and similar material. For one who has worked in this way in connection with divorce, it is therefore discomfor…
Divorce in the Progressive Era
Social Stratification: An Introduction
Is there a relationship between childlessness and marriage breakdown?
The common belief that childlessness is positively associated with instability of marriage derives from official statistics which appear to show higher divorce rates for childless than for fertile couples. The official findings are a procedural artifact, however, and the relationship shown is certainly exaggerated and possibly spurious. The appropriate strategy in determining whether divorcees are relatively infertile is to find a population with…
Cruelty in English Divorce: Some Empirical Findings
Cruelty was a specific ground for divorce in England from 1938 to 1970, and was important to women, who monopolized its use. The judicial construction of cruelty requires actual or apprehended danger to life, limb or health, but leading decisions and judicial pronouncements indicate that courts came to have less restrictive interpretations than formerly. In particular, neither physical abuse nor malign intent were ultimately necessary to establis…
Population versus Liberty
Divorce and Legal Aid: A False Hypothesis
This paper examines the proposition advanced by some commentators that divorce petitioning in England and Wales fluctuates in accordance with the changing real value of legal aid. Direct evidence, from divorce figures and details of legal aid provision, is examined and shown not to fit the hypothesis. Indirect evidence drawn from Magistrates' Court proceedings and income provision by the National Assistance Board also fails to support the proposi…
Contemporary Trends in the Stability of English Marriage
From 1959 to 1969 the annual number of petitions for divorce in England and Wales increased by 133%, and the rate of divorce per 1000 married population increased by an estimated 100%. Traditional explanations for the historical increase in divorce, relying on such factors as increased legal and financial opportunity, wartime disturbances and demographic changes, seem inappropriate to deal with recent experience, and it is proposed that normative…
Health and marriage breakdown: Experience of a sample of divorced women
The termination of a marriage by death or separation precipitates individuals into new roles and social situations, and it has long been assumed that this experience may create exceptional vulnera- bility to medico-social disorders. Stein and Susser
The Duration of Marriage to Divorce
Sex differences in divorce behaviour
Patterns of divorce behaviour in England are not well documented. Apart from the limited data provided annually by the Registrar General, and secondary commentaries on these, our knowledge comes almost entirely from a single paper which is now becoming historically dated (Rowntree & Carrier, 1958). There has been no social survey of a specifically divorced population, and the paper referred to is the only example of analysis based on court record…
Cruelty in English Divorce: Some Empirical Findings
Cruelty was a specific ground for divorce in England from 1938 to 1970, and was important to women, who monopolized its use. The judicial construction of cruelty requires actual or apprehended danger to life, limb or health, but leading decisions and judicial pronouncements indicate that courts came to have less restrictive interpretations than formerly. In particular, neither physical abuse nor malign intent were ultimately necessary to establis…
Sex differences in divorce behaviour
Patterns of divorce behaviour in England are not well documented. Apart from the limited data provided annually by the Registrar General, and secondary commentaries on these, our knowledge comes almost entirely from a single paper which is now becoming historically dated (Rowntree & Carrier, 1958). There has been no social survey of a specifically divorced population, and the paper referred to is the only example of analysis based on court record…
Contemporary Trends in the Stability of English Marriage
From 1959 to 1969 the annual number of petitions for divorce in England and Wales increased by 133%, and the rate of divorce per 1000 married population increased by an estimated 100%. Traditional explanations for the historical increase in divorce, relying on such factors as increased legal and financial opportunity, wartime disturbances and demographic changes, seem inappropriate to deal with recent experience, and it is proposed that normative…
Health and marriage breakdown: Experience of a sample of divorced women
The termination of a marriage by death or separation precipitates individuals into new roles and social situations, and it has long been assumed that this experience may create exceptional vulnera- bility to medico-social disorders. Stein and Susser
The Duration of Marriage to Divorce
Is there a relationship between childlessness and marriage breakdown?
The common belief that childlessness is positively associated with instability of marriage derives from official statistics which appear to show higher divorce rates for childless than for fertile couples. The official findings are a procedural artifact, however, and the relationship shown is certainly exaggerated and possibly spurious. The appropriate strategy in determining whether divorcees are relatively infertile is to find a population with…
Cruelty in English Divorce: Some Empirical Findings
Cruelty was a specific ground for divorce in England from 1938 to 1970, and was important to women, who monopolized its use. The judicial construction of cruelty requires actual or apprehended danger to life, limb or health, but leading decisions and judicial pronouncements indicate that courts came to have less restrictive interpretations than formerly. In particular, neither physical abuse nor malign intent were ultimately necessary to establis…
Population versus Liberty
Divorce and Legal Aid: A False Hypothesis
This paper examines the proposition advanced by some commentators that divorce petitioning in England and Wales fluctuates in accordance with the changing real value of legal aid. Direct evidence, from divorce figures and details of legal aid provision, is examined and shown not to fit the hypothesis. Indirect evidence drawn from Magistrates' Court proceedings and income provision by the National Assistance Board also fails to support the proposi…
Social Stratification: An Introduction
Divorce in the Progressive Era
Official Statistics and Family Sociology
In generating the data required for their purposes, sociologists of the family have often worked with official statistics. Instances need not be offered because they are so numerous, but reference to any textbook on the family, or to issues of this journal, indicates extensive use of census returns, registration data, judicial statistics and similar material. For one who has worked in this way in connection with divorce, it is therefore discomfor…
Equalities and Inequalities in Family Life
Divorce in Europe
Children and Marital Problems
The aim of this paper is to draw together within an evaluative framework British research‐based material concerning the impact of children, or the absence of children, on the quality and stability of the marriage relationship. The focus, therefore, is quite specific, and there is no attempt to review the whole corpus of literature on childbearing and child‐rearing. The relevant material is limited, fragmentary, and scattered across the literature…
Divorce and Separation: Context, Causes, and Consequences. George Levinger , Oliver C. Moles
Changing Patterns of Conception and Fertility
SSRC Family Research Initiative
SSRC FAMILY RESEARCH INITIATIVE Get access R. Chester R. Chester Dept. of Social Administration, The University of Hull Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 16, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1983, Pages 191-b–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/16.1.191-b Published: 01 October 1983
Robert Chester's ‘Love's Martyr; Or, Rosalins Complaint': With its Supplement, ‘Diverse Poeticall Essaies on the Turtle and Phoenix'
The literary scholar Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827–99) reprinted this allegorical poem by Robert Chester (fl.c.1586–1604) with an introduction and notes in 1878. Grosart incorrectly identified the poem's author as a certain Sir Robert Chester of Royston. Later research suggests Chester served as a chaplain or secretary in the household of the work's dedicatee, Sir John Salusbury. Originally printed in 1601, the grandiloquent, meandering poem is…
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