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Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England

Author : Jennifer Phegley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313375356
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England by : Jennifer Phegley

Download or read book Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England written by Jennifer Phegley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the popular publications of the Victorian period, illuminating the intricacies of courtship and marriage from the differing perspectives of the working, middle, and upper classes. In contemporary culture, the near obsessive pursuit of love and monogamous bliss is considered "normal," as evidenced by a wide range of online dating sites, television shows such as Sex in the City and The Bachelorette, and an endless stream of Hollywood romantic comedies. Ironically, when it comes to love and marriage, we still wrestle with many of the same emotional and social challenges as our 19th-century predecessors did over 100 years ago. Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England draws on little-known conduct books, letter-writing manuals, domestic guidebooks, periodical articles, letters, and novels to reveal what the period equivalents of "dating" and "tying the knot" were like in the Victorian era. By addressing topics such as the etiquette of introductions and home visits, the roles of parents and chaperones, the events of the London season, model love letters, and the specific challenges facing domestic servants seeking spouses, author Jennifer Phegley provides a fascinating examination of British courtship and marriage rituals among the working, middle, and upper classes from the 1830s to the 1910s.

A Victorian Courtship

Author : Jeanne MacKenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Victorian Courtship written by Jeanne MacKenzie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1979 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Beatrice potter and Sidney Webb.

Promises Broken

Author : Ginger Suzanne Frost
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813916101
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Promises Broken written by Ginger Suzanne Frost and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COURTSHIP, CLASS AND GENDER IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND.

Between Women

Author : Sharon Marcus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400830850
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Between Women written by Sharon Marcus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law. Through a close examination of literature, memoirs, letters, domestic magazines, and political debates, Marcus reveals how relationships between women were a crucial component of femininity. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and filled with original readings of familiar and surprising sources, Between Women overturns everything we thought we knew about Victorian women and the history of marriage and family life. It offers a new paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality--not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.

Middlemarch

Author : George Elliott
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1425040527
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Middlemarch written by George Elliott and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary masterpiece written from personal experience, Middlemarch is a deep psychological observation of human nature that revolves around the issues of love, jealousy, and obligation. Eliot's feminist views are apparent through the novel: she stresses the fact that women should control their own lives.

Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England

Author : Jennifer Phegley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England written by Jennifer Phegley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the popular publications of the Victorian period, illuminating the intricacies of courtship and marriage from the differing perspectives of the working, middle, and upper classes. In contemporary culture, the near obsessive pursuit of love and monogamous bliss is considered "normal," as evidenced by a wide range of online dating sites, television shows such as Sex in the City and The Bachelorette, and an endless stream of Hollywood romantic comedies. Ironically, when it comes to love and marriage, we still wrestle with many of the same emotional and social challenges as our 19th-century predecessors did over 100 years ago. Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England draws on little-known conduct books, letter-writing manuals, domestic guidebooks, periodical articles, letters, and novels to reveal what the period equivalents of "dating" and "tying the knot" were like in the Victorian era. By addressing topics such as the etiquette of introductions and home visits, the roles of parents and chaperones, the events of the London season, model love letters, and the specific challenges facing domestic servants seeking spouses, author Jennifer Phegley provides a fascinating examination of British courtship and marriage rituals among the working, middle, and upper classes from the 1830s to the 1910s.

Connubial Bliss

Author : E. Rose
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781092254991
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Connubial Bliss written by E. Rose and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connubial Bliss: The Little Book of 19th Century Courtship, Engagement & Marital Wisdom takes you back to a simpler era of love and marriage with anecdotes, stories, and advice collected from over 100 years ago. Readers will enjoy an extensive description of wedding etiquette and customs from the late 1800s, advice on preparing the bridal trousseau, and relationship guidance for the newly married couple. Also included is a collection of timeless quotes and humorous stories about married life. The modern bride will delight in taking a step back in time with this small collection. Perfect for an engagement present and for any lover of Victorian era romance.

Parallel Lives

Author : Phyllis Rose
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0394725808
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Parallel Lives written by Phyllis Rose and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1984-10-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot--née Marian Evans.

Love in the Time of Victoria

Author : Francoise Barret-Ducrocq
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140173269
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Victoria written by Francoise Barret-Ducrocq and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-12-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using firsthand documents uncovered in the archives of a London foundling hospital, Barret-Ducrocq offers a marvelously acute census of Victorian sexual and moral attitudes.

A Victorian Courtship: the Story of Beatrice Potter and Sidney Webb

Author : Jeanne MacKenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789120094892
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book A Victorian Courtship: the Story of Beatrice Potter and Sidney Webb written by Jeanne MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Courtship

Author : Tania O'Donnell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510708707
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A History of Courtship written by Tania O'Donnell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tania O’Donnell takes the reader on a journey from medieval Courtly Love, through to the sexual license of the Restoration, and Victorian propriety. Pick up historical ‘dating tips,’ from how to court (or be courted), write romantic love letters, give and receive gifts, propose and pose as a sighing swain. The book takes a historical approach to the problem of finding a mate, with case studies of classic romantic mistakes and plenty of unusual tales. In the 14th century young men tried to impress the ladies with their footwear, donning shoes with pointed toes so long that they had to be secured with whalebone—presumably because size mattered! A History of Courtship is an entertaining and enlightening look at seduction over the centuries.

The Marriage of Minds

Author : Rachel Ablow
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804754668
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book The Marriage of Minds written by Rachel Ablow and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marriage of Minds examines the implications of the common Victorian claim that novel reading can achieve the psychic, ethical, and affective benefits also commonly associated with sympathy in married life. Through close readings of canonical texts in relation to the histories of sympathy, marriage, and reading, The Marriage of Minds begins to fill a long-standing gap between eighteenth-century philosophical notions of sympathy and twentieth-century psychoanalytic concepts of identification. It examines the wide variety of ways in which novels were understood to educate or reform readers in the mid-nineteenth century. Finally, it demonstrates how both the form of the Victorian novel and the experience supposed to result from that form were implicated in ongoing debates about the nature, purpose, and law of marriage.

Romance's Rival

Author : Talia Schaffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190465093
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Romance's Rival written by Talia Schaffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance's Rival argues that the central plot of the most important genre of the nineteenth century, the marriage plot novel, means something quite different from what we thought. In Victorian novels, women may marry for erotic desire--but they might, instead, insist on "familiar marriage," marrying trustworthy companions who can offer them socially rich lives and futures of meaningful work. Romance's Rival shows how familiar marriage expresses ideas of female subjectivity dating back through the seventeenth century, while romantic marriage felt like a new, risky idea. Undertaking a major rereading of the rise-of-the-novel tradition, from Richardson through the twentieth century, Talia Schaffer rethinks what the novel meant if one tracks familiar-marriage virtues. This alternative perspective offers new readings of major texts (Austen, the Bront s, Eliot, Trollope) but it also foregrounds women's popular fiction (Yonge, Oliphant, Craik, Broughton). Offering a feminist perspective that reads the marriage plot from the woman's point of view, Schaffer inquires why a female character might legitimately wish to marry for something other than passion. For the past half-century, scholars have valorized desire, individuality, and autonomy in the way we read novels; Romance's Rival asks us to look at the other side, to validate the yearning for work, family, company, or social power as legitimate reasons for women's marital choices in Victorian fiction. Comprehensive in its knowledge of several generations of scholarship on the novel, Romance's Rival convinces us to re-examine assumptions about the nature and function of marriage and the role of the novel in helping us not simply imagine marriage but also process changing ideas about what it might look like and how it might serve people.

Unmentionable

Author : Therese Oneill
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316357913
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Unmentionable written by Therese Oneill and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't question.) UNMENTIONABLE is your hilarious, illustrated, scandalously honest (yet never crass) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood, giving you detailed advice on: ~ What to wear ~ Where to relieve yourself ~ How to conceal your loathsome addiction to menstruating ~ What to expect on your wedding night ~ How to be the perfect Victorian wife ~ Why masturbating will kill you ~ And more Irresistibly charming, laugh-out-loud funny, and featuring nearly 200 images from Victorian publications, UNMENTIONABLE will inspire a whole new level of respect for Elizabeth Bennett, Scarlet O'Hara, Jane Eyre, and all of our great, great grandmothers. (And it just might leave you feeling ecstatically grateful to live in an age of pants, super absorbency tampons, epidurals, anti-depressants, and not-dying-of-the-syphilis-your-husband-brought-home.)

Courtship and Constraint

Author : Diana O'Hara
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719062513
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Courtship and Constraint written by Diana O'Hara and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major study of courtship in early modern England. Courtship was a vitally important process in early modern England. It was a period of private and public negotiation, often fraught with anxiety. If completed successfully it brought respectability, the privileges of marriage and adulthood, and a stable union between socially, economically, and emotionally compatible couples. Using Kent church court and probate material dating from the 15th to the end of the 16th century, the book blends historical and anthropological perspectives to suggest novel and exciting approaches to the making of marriage.

Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850-1895

Author : Mary Lyndon Shanley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691215987
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850-1895 written by Mary Lyndon Shanley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the fields of political theory and history, this comprehensive study of Victorian reforms in marriage law reshapes our understanding of the feminist movement of that period. As Mary Shanley shows, Victorian feminists argued that justice for women would not follow from public rights alone, but required a fundamental transformation of the marriage relationship.

Victorian Women

Author : Joan Perkin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814766255
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Women written by Joan Perkin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of a book first published in 1993 by John Murray, UK. Perkins (women's history, Northwestern U.) uses letters, memoirs, and other revealing, first-hand sources to describe the social conditions of women of all classes during the Victorian era. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR