Between Women : Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England /

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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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marcus, Sharon, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Frauenfreundschaft
Kvinnor i litteraturen.
Kvinnlig vänskap > Storbritannien.
Lesbiska kvinnor > historia > Storbritannien.
Kvinnor > sociala nätverk > historia > Storbritannien.
Kvinnor > historia > Storbritannien.
Victoriaanse tijd.
Huwelijk.
Seksualiteit.
Vriendschap.
Vrouwen.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Gay & Lesbian.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
Women.
Women > Social networks.
Women in literature.
Lesbians.
Female friendship.
Lesbiennes > Angleterre > Histoire.
Groupes de femmes > Angleterre.
Femmes > Angleterre > Histoire.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Amitie feminine > Angleterre.
Women > England > History.
Women > Social networks > England.
Lesbians > England > History.
Female friendship > England.
Grossbritannien
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
England.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 marriage in Can you forgive her?
  • Woolf, Wilde and girl dates.

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