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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.

Breach of promise --- Husband and wife --- Betrothal --- Betrothal in literature --- Women --- History. --- Law and legislation. --- History --- Social conditions --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Marriage law --- Man and wife --- Matrimonial regime --- Spouses --- Wife and husband --- Domestic relations --- Desertion and non-support --- Married women --- Law and legislation --- Law --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Betrothal in literature.

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Allegiance in literature. --- Betrothal in literature. --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- Constancy in literature. --- English literature --- Loyalty in literature. --- Oaths in literature. --- Trust in literature. --- Vows in literature. --- Psychological aspects. --- History and criticism.