Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=flgh20 Download by: [University of Technology Sydney] Date: 20 July 2017, At: 00:06 The Journal of Legal History ISSN: 0144-0365 (Print) 1744-0564 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/flgh20 ‘She Felt Strongly the Injury to Her Affections’: Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Medicalization of Heartbreak in Early Twentieth- Century Australia Alecia Simmonds To cite this article: Alecia Simmonds (2017) ‘She Felt Strongly the Injury to Her Affections’: Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Medicalization of Heartbreak in Early Twentieth-Century Australia, The Journal of Legal History, 38:2, 179-202, DOI: 10.1080/01440365.2017.1336892 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440365.2017.1336892 Published online: 18 Jun 2017. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 37 View related articles View Crossmark data