This book examines the popular publications of the Victorian period, illuminating the intricacies of courtship and marriage from the differing perspectives of t

Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described

Bridging the fields of political theory and history, this comprehensive study of Victorian reforms in marriage law reshapes our understanding of the feminist mo

Top scholars in Victorian studies reexamine questions about marriage and the marriage plot from cutting-edge perspectives.

In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives wit