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Broken engagements [electronic resource] : the action for breach of promise of marriage and the feminine ideal, 1800-1940 / Saskia Lettmaier.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford studies in modern legal historyPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 209 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780191722066
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 346.42016 22
LOC classification:
  • KD754
Online resources: 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.
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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 identity.

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