Love in the Time of Victoria

Sexuality and Desire among Working-Class Men and Women in Nineteenth-Century London

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3983303
AutoresBeverly Young, Francoise Barret-Ducrocq, John Howe (0000-0002-3432-8296), John G Howe
Ano1998
Volume41
Páginas308
Data de publicação1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLabour / Le Travail (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/25144262
OpenAlexW623560930
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8

Part 1 Labouring classes, depraved classes: the setting a vast hothouse of sexual immorality - the signs of immorality, use of the streets, places of amusement, living conditions - one-room dwellings and sexual licence characters in the family drama, the head of the family, children, young people, women the natural history of transgressions - profligacy, the reign of the impure, animality. Part 2 The foundling hospital. Part 3 Love and marriage: My vile seducer has been the cause of four other young women's ruin, casual loves and impossible romances - female servants are far from being a virtuous class, nice life this, for a girl of three and twenty, my Kerristian home, sweet home temptations and precautions - as was going to Chelsea one day, met with a pretty girl on the way ..., courtship parents and family, friends and workmates, employers, a very discreet courtship, there was courtship or promise of where they went to never hear say but when she returned, Mrs Gray said she'd very much rumpl'd her muslin ... sex marriage, promises of marriage - promised me marriage, they all do love nests, love traps, the question of consent words of love now lost to all, her friends, her virtue fled ..., promised to marry her soon, but soon he forgot all about her ..., posting banns, living in sin, before everything went wrong, abortion attempts, I told him at which he seemed frightened, said he would see me through my trouble seduced and abandoned, family and friends, no sir, missus don't permit followers, rules of sexual morality

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