Sammelband of Seven Pamphlets Bound in Half-Leather: A Chapter of Autobiography.; Some Observations on Educational Administration in India, in a Letter to the Right Hon. Sir Stafford H. Northcote; Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Forbidden by the L…

63, 15, 10, 16, 15, 16, 47 pp. A collection of short works published 1868-71, mostly dedicated to legislation surrounding marriage. The restriction referenced to marrying the sister of one's deceased wife was reversed in 1907 in the United Kingdom, after prolonged conflict in the courts beginning in the 1840s. During this time several novels, including William Clark Russell's anonymously published The Deceased Wife's Sister, treated the topic. It is fleetingly referenced in Tess of the d'Urbervilles as well.