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Between women [electronic resource] : friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England / Sharon...

Between women [electronic resource] : friendship, desir...

Between women [electronic resource] : friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England / Sharon...

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8XPWP83

Between women [electronic resource] : friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England / Sharon Marcus.

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Full title

Between women [electronic resource] : friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England / Sharon Marcus.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.

Alternative title

BOOK

Record Identifier

74VKV8XPWP83

MMS ID

991024189546702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

1 online resource (368 p.)

Content type

text

Media type

computer

Carrier type

online resource

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 marriag...

Publication information

Publisher

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.

Edition

Course Book

Place of Publication

New Jersey

Date Published

c2007.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

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 property, and lived together in long-term partners...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Between women [electronic resource] : friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England / Sharon Marcus.

Variant title

BOOK

Authors, Artists and Contributors

Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-346) and index.

Language note

English

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c2007.

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Primary Identifiers

Record Identifier

74VKV8XPWP83

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV8XPWP83

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ISBN

1-4008-3085-0

1-282-25912-1

DDC

306.84/8094209034

MMS ID

991024189546702626

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