Hansley v. Hansley: 1849 - Suggestions For Further Reading

Bardaglio, Peter W. Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus. Dissolution: No-Fault Divorce, Marriage, and the Future of Women. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1977.

Griswold, Robert L. "Sexual Cruelty and the Case for Divorce in Victorian America." Signs 11(1986): 529-41.

Iredell, James. North Carolina Reports: Cases at Law Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Vol. 32. Raleigh, N.C.: Turner and Hughes, 1850. Reprint, Raleigh, N.C.: E. M. Uzzell and Company, State Printers and Binders, 1909.