Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England
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Letter Writing
Once a couple embarked on a romantic correspondence, that was a short sign that they were on the road to an engagement. Some dads wouldn't let men correspond with their daughters until they had proven to them that they had the means to marry. Letter writing is becoming this really important way of forming a person's identity and formulating their feelings. The letter itself was a really important sort of gift, just like the tokens we've been talking about.
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