Product Description: This book examines the popular publications of the Victorian period, illuminating the intricacies of courtship and marriage from the differing perspectives of the working, middle, and upper classes.• A chronological examination of Victorian marriage law• Various courtship and marriage cartoons; pictures of activities during the London Season; photographs of Victorian wedding attire; representations of Queen Victoria's engagement and wedding; illustrations of wedding gifts, dresses, and cakes; and an engraving of the London Divorce Cour...read more

Tells the stories of wealthy nineteenth-century American heiresses who married British nobelman

Examines the personal and sexual lives of the nineteenth-century British aristocracy, outlines rules of conduct, and looks at courtship, weddings, marriage, and divorce