Promises broken : courtship, class, and gender in Victorian England / Ginger S. Frost.
1995
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Author
Title
Promises broken : courtship, class, and gender in Victorian England / Ginger S. Frost.
Published
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Call Number
KD754 .F76 1995
ISBN
0813916100 (alk. paper)
Description
ix, 241 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)32238926
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-222) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Myth of Breach of Promise
1
I
The Legal History of Breach of Promise
13
II
The Court as Public Theatre
25
III
Gender Roles
40
IV
Courtships and Weddings
58
V
Broken Engagements in Victorian England
80
VI
Premarital Sex in Victorian England
98
VII
Four Case Studies, 1846-1916
118
VIII
Elite Men Debate
141
IX
Elite Women Debate
161
Conclusion: The End of Breach of Promise?
172
Abbreviations
181
Notes
183
Bibliography
211
List of Cases
223
Index
235