Title: Broken engagements
Subtitle: the action for breach of promise of marriage and the feminine ideal, 1800-1940
Description: 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.
Subjects: History, Betrothal, Law and legislation, Breach of promise, Husband and wife, Marriage law, great britain, Women, great britain, Women, social conditions, Betrothal in literature, Betrothal in motion pictures, Women, Social conditions