Key readings
Henry Finlay, To have but not to hold: a history of attitudes to marriage and divorce in Australia 1858–1975 (Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Press, 2005.)
Henry Finlay, ‘Marriage and Divorce’ in The Companion to Tasmanian History edited by Alison Alexander (Hobart: Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, University of Tasmania, 2005), pp.228-9.
Penny Russell (ed), For richer, for poorer: early colonial marriages (Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1994.)