Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England
You're Dead to Me
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What Do You Know Now?
So what do you know now? This is where we fire ten questions at you. What kinds of places did middling people meet and start courting their loves? A fair or a ball? And houses, walking along the side church.? Letter writing was another vital stage of serious courtship in Georgian times. But why did love letters tend to be lights on all the sexy stuff that we really want to read? Because everybody's gonna read them. Not just you, it was not a private secure server.
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