02191cam a2200289 a 4500 060616s2007 njua b 001 0 eng 0691128200 9780691128207 0691128359 9780691128351 SDU HQ1599 M313 B 2007 Marcus, Sharon, 184919 Between women : friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England / Sharon Marcus. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2007. 356 p. : ill. 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. HKBU library 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. Women England History. 184920 Women Social networks England. 184921 Lesbians England History. 184922 Female friendship England. 184923 Women in literature. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 101697 101697 0 0 lcc 0 HQ1599 M313 B2007 0 CGB 279810 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-08-29 2 0 HQ1599 M313 B 2007 1000373596 2025-08-29 00:00:00 C.1 2025-08-29 GBE