Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

by Sharon Marcus

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691128359
• ISBN13: 9780691128351
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"