TY - BOOK ID - 46120865 TI - Broken engagements : the action for breach of promise of marriage and the feminine ideal, 1800-1940 PY - 2010 SN - 9780191722066 0191722065 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Breach of promise KW - Husband and wife KW - Betrothal KW - Betrothal in literature KW - Women KW - History. KW - Law and legislation. KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Marriage law KW - Man and wife KW - Matrimonial regime KW - Spouses KW - Wife and husband KW - Domestic relations KW - Desertion and non-support KW - Married women KW - Law and legislation KW - Law KW - Legal status, laws, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46120865 AB - Lettmaier explores ideals of femininity during the 19th and early 20th centuries by charting responses to broken engagements. Interweaving a history of the legal remedies for a broken promise of marriage with literary accounts from Dickens to Wodehouse, it offers an insight into attitudes to female identity. ER -