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- Title
Victorian Girls Gone Wild: Matrimonial Advertising and the Transformation of Courtship in the Popular Press.
- Authors
PHEGLEY, JENNIFER
- Abstract
The article discusses the use of matrimonial advertising in Victorian England as a courtship practice, focusing on how the practice impacted the view of women's role in courtship. Other topics include the economics of marriage in the 19th century, the role matrimonial advertisements played for socially isolated individuals, and information on how the public perceived this type of courtship and marriages that arose from it.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; COURTSHIP; NEWSPAPER advertising; SOCIAL conditions of women; MARRIAGE &; economics; SOCIAL isolation; PUBLIC opinion; VICTORIAN Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2013, Vol 39, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2013.0060