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- Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800-1940
Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800-1940
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This book explores ideals of femininity during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by charting responses to broken engagements. Interweaving a history of the legal remedies available for a broken promise of marriage with literary accounts from Dickens to Wodehouse, the book offers a major insight into modern attitudes to female identity.
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