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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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Marcus, Sharon, 1966-
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
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  • Contracting female marriage in Can you forgive her?
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