Broken engagements : the action for breach of promise of marriage and the feminine ideal, 1800-1940 /

Lettmaier explores ideals of femininity during the 19th and early 20th centuries by charting responses to broken engagements. Interweaving a history of the legal remedies for a broken promise of marriage with literary accounts from Dickens to Wodehouse, it offers an insight into attitudes to female...

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Main Author:	Lettmaier, Saskia
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:	Oxford studies in modern legal history.
Subjects:	Breach of promise > History. Husband and wife > History. Betrothal > Law and legislation. Rupture de promesse de mariage > Histoire. Betrothal > Law and legislation Breach of promise Husband and wife Electronic books. History
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