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Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England

You're Dead to Me

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Is the Bachelor a Bad Thing?

The bachelor in print culture was a sort of effeminate spinly figure who wasn't fulfilling this masculine ideal. It doesn't mean that he was a great lathario. Someone's really poor, they don't even have a pot to piss in. Like they didn't have a half to put a pot on. But yes, so a man is looking to be not a bachelor anymore.

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