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Marriage in the Victorian
Title: Marriage in the Victorian
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 689 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Marriage in the Victorian
Marriage in the Victorian
In the Victorian, marriage was seen mainly as bringing up ones status, people didn’t marry for love they married for money. In this case, Victorians kept marriage between family members to keep the wealth there. Throughout many Victorian works this trend in seen often.
In Thomas Hardy’s novel, Desperate Remedies, in the beginning we learn that Cyntherea had to end her relationship with Ambrose Graye, because she was going …showed first 75 words of 689 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 689 total…the only time you do see cousins marrying each other is on The Jerry Springer Show.
Works Cited
Browning, Elizabeth. “Aurora Leigh.” The Norton Anthology of
English Literature. Eds. M.H. Abrams and Stephen
Greenblatt. New York: Norton.
Hardy, Thomas. Desperate Remedies. 1871. New York:
Penguin, 1998.
Hoppe, Michelle. Courting the Victorian Woman. New York:
Penguin, 1998.
McMurtry, Jo. Victorian Life and Victorian Fiction. CT:
Archon Books, 1979.
Shanley, Mary. “Marriage Law.” Victorian Britain.
Sally Mitchell. New York: Garland, 1988
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