Between women : friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England / / Sharon Marcus.
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 o...
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 356 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.