Between women friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England /

Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other...

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Autore principale: Marcus, Sharon, 1966-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
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Sommario:
  • The female relations of Victorian England
  • Friendship and the play of the system
  • Just reading: female friendship and the marriage plot
  • Dressing up and dressing down the feminine plaything
  • The female accessory in Great expectations
  • The genealogy of marriage
  • Contracting female marriage in Can you forgive her?
  • Woolf, Wilde and girl dates.