Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England
You're Dead to Me
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What's the Wedding That Looked Like, Carrie?
Settlements issued by the courts were big. They're 250 quid, which was probably two years earnings for a middling person. So they had a lot of money to cough up at once. It shows sort of in one sense, the courts are tipping the balance of power towards women. You did have that legal recourse if you needed it. But also it was because of this presumption that women suffered much more than men from romantic hurt. The sort of mishapishum effect. Let's assume Lydia and Barnaby have not thrown away. Love has won out in the end. He is going to take her down the aisle. Oi! What's the wedding that looked like
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