Abstract
Marital strife—quarrels, disputes, resistance, and violence—often played out in the marital bed of the Victorian working-class home. Continuing the examination of the spatial aspect of marital strife in the current literature, this chapter seeks to understand the place of the bedroom in marital conflict and reveals how the marital bed could be used as a tool of abuse, control, and resistance within working-class marriage. Moreover, this chapter continues to emphasise the struggles of Victorian working-class couples in obtaining any privacy in regard to their marital relations. While marital disputes and marital violence may have been physically contained within the bedroom, their quarrels were, nevertheless, audible to other inhabitants and even neighbours.
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