The Marriage Lease; The Story of a Social Experiment
| Title | The Marriage Lease; The Story of a Social Experiment |
| Year for Search | 1907 |
| Authors | Moore, [Francis] Frank Frankfort Thomas(1855-1931) |
| Tertiary Authors | Moore, Frank Frankfort Thomas |
| Date Published | 1907 |
| Publisher | Hutchinson |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | Irish author, Male author, Northern Ireland author |
| Annotation | Flawed utopia with considerable satire. A wealthy man decides to establish a eutopia and purchases a small, mostly abandoned island called Azalea and populates it with selected people, with the willingness to work the major qualification. It was very successful, but a proposal was adopted for a limited-term marriage contract, and this was a failure. |
| Additional Publishers | U.S. ed. as A Trial Marriage. New York: Empire Book Co., [1907]. |
| Title Note | U.S. ed. as A Trial Marriage. New York: Empire Book Co., [1907]. |
| Holding Institutions | L, LLL, MoU-St |
| Author Note | The author (1855-1931) was born in Ireland and lived and worked in Northern Ireland. |
| Full Text | 1907 Moore, [Francis] Frank Frankfort (1855-1931). The Marriage Lease; The Story of a Social Experiment. Flawed utopia with considerable satire. A wealthy man decides to establish a eutopia and purchases a small, mostly abandoned island called Azalea and populates it with selected people, with the willingness to work the major qualification. It was very successful, but a proposal was adopted for a limited-term marriage contract, and this was a failure. The author was born in |
