Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England
You're Dead to Me
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Is Your Mother Reading Your Letters?
These are not good case studies for how to land a hotty. You can't spell it out in writing because everyone's reading your letters. And that's presumably why the letters are not hot and heavy. We're not getting sexting in the 18th century, really in letters. If your mum reads your text, nobody's sexting. Like, that instantly stops. In fact, actually, I think it would be a great way for us all to act digitally online to think. Imagine this person's mum is going to read this? Should I send this? As a woman, your friends would read a man's letters, your mum might read them, your aunties
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