A History of Marriage A History of Marriage A History of Marriage, published by Seven Stories Press, is a non-fiction book by Elizabeth Abbott, the Canadian author of "A History of Celibacy" (1999) and "A History of Mistresses" (2003) that combines general history and personal histories of marriage. The book is a study of mostly North American rituals of courting, nuptials, marriage, sex, child-raising and divorce. Some topics covered are relative ages at which various societies from Chinese to Mormon married off their girls; details of the satisfying marriage of Martin Luther and former nun Katharina von Bora; the ruptured family units of Native
Catharine Burton other sources by Father Thomas Hunter, remained in manuscript till 1876. It was printed, with the title of "An English Carmelite" (London), under the editorial supervision of Father Henry James Coleridge, S.J. Catharine Burton Catharine Burton (1668–1714) was an English Discalced Carmelite nun. She was born at Beyton, Suffolk, near Bury St Edmunds, on 4 November 1668. Feeling called to the monastic life, Burton went to the Spanish Netherlands. There she made her religious profession in the monastery of the English Discalced Carmelite nuns at Antwerp in 1694, being known in that community as Mother Mary Xaveria of the Angels,