Marriage or Celibacy?: The Daily Telegraph on a Victorian Dilemma

by John M. Robson

Book Overview

In July 1868 the Daily Telegraph congratulated itself on providing the arena for a controversy marked by good sense, liveliness, practical wisdom, and hearty humanity.' The controversy was over the choice -: 'Marriage or Celibacy?' - faced by middle-class youth trying to reconcile economic facts with moral values, social customs - and love. The arena was the correspondence page of a newspaper just establishing itself as the most successful London...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802077986
• ISBN13: 9780802077981
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"