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100 1  Marcus, Sharon,|d1966- 
245 10 Between women :|bfriendship, desire, and marriage in 
       Victorian England /|cSharon Marcus. 
264  1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2007] 
264  4 |c©2007 
300    x, 356 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-346) and 
       index. 
505 0  The female relations of Victorian England -- Friendship 
       and the play of the system -- Just reading: female 
       friendship and the marriage plot -- Dressing up and 
       dressing down the feminine plaything -- The female 
       accessory in Great expectations -- The genealogy of 
       marriage -- Contracting female marriage in Can you forgive
       her? -- Woolf, Wilde and girl dates.  
520    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 the 
       dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had 
       sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and 
       vows, willed each other property, and lived together in 
       long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as 
       Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender 
       outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture and
       their friendships and unions were accepted and even 
       encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being 
       sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian 
       women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other 
       women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of 
       companionate love between men and women celebrated by 
       novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social
       thinkers to reform marriage law.--From publisher 
       description. 
650  0 Women|zEngland|xHistory. 
650  0 Women|xSocial networks|zEngland. 
650  0 Lesbians|zEngland|xHistory. 
650  0 Female friendship|zEngland. 
650  0 Women in literature. 
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