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

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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
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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 identity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 209 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-205) and index.
ISBN:9780191722066
0191722065