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

You're Dead to Me

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Are You Going to Go for the Full Craze?

In popular culture, courtship was compared to like a hunt or a sort of sport. The word love is appearing in Austen's novels so many more times than Richardson. We do have evidence of intense romantic relationships between same-sex couples. Barnaby and Lydia are the most famous examples but there were others too.

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