Man and Wife is Wilkie Collins's ninth published novel, first published in 1870. It is the second of his novels (after No Name) in which social questions provide the main impetus of the plot. Collins increasingly used his novels to explore social abuses, which according to critics[1][2] tends to detract from their qualities as fiction. The social issue which drives the plot is the state of Scots marriage law; at the time the novel was written, any couple who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married, either before witnesses or in writing, were regarded in Scotland as being legally married.
- ^ Peters, Catherine (1993). The King of Inventors. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-03392-1.
- ^ Page, Norman (1995). Man and Wife (Introduction to Oxford Classics ed.). Oxford University Press.
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