Katz on The Fatal Flaw in The Fatal Three: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Treatment of the Law Relating to Marriage Between a Widower and His Deceased Wife's Sister

Leslie Katz has published The Fatal Flaw in The Fatal Three: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Treatment of the Law Relating to Marriage between a Widower and His Deceased Wife’s Sister. Here is the abstract.

After setting out the general legal background and summarising the story so far as it's relevant, the paper explains how an error on Mary Elizabeth Braddon's part relating to the legal effect of illegitimacy sent her novel The Fatal Three off the rails.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.