Overview
This text explores ideals of femininity during the 19th and early 20th centuries by charting responses to broken engagements. Interweaving a history of the legal remedies available for a broken promise of marriage with literary accounts from Dickens to Wodehouse, it offers an insight into modern attitudes to female identity.
- | Author: Saskia Lettmaier
- | Publisher: OUP Oxford
- | Publication Date: Apr 19, 2010
- | Number of Pages: 230 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0199569975
- | ISBN-13: 9780199569977
