Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England
You're Dead to Me
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What if Barnaby Doesn't Pull Out?
Sex before weddings was much more common than we liked to think. There were contraception, you know, there were condoms and pullout methods. Lydia could sue Barnaby even if she weren't pregnant for breach of promise. He still wouldn't have to marry her though, so she'd still be... Sometimes juries could order enormous damages in the hope that that would make them congeuse his hand.
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