Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England
You're Dead to Me
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How Much I Fancy You?
You had to pay per page in a way. They would like write one way and write the other. The server was completely open. So you can't really go into a lengthy look how much I fancy you. You have to be like Romeo and Juliet, get what I mean. If they got a letter and it's like five lines long and the rest of the page is blank, women would write back saying, "What the hell is this?" It's just shilling. That's sick. Have you read Paradise Lost? Just put in a few phrases. Fill up pages. And actually, we've got a cotton trader called Joseph Strut, where he's not even really trying
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