{"product_id":"love-in-the-time-of-victoria-isbn-9780140173260","title":"Love in the Time of Victoria","description":"Using firsthand documents uncovered in the archives of a London foundling hospital, Barret-Ducrocq offers a marvelously acute census of Victorian sexual and moral attitudes.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. LABOURING CLASSES, DEPRAVED CLASSES\u003cbr\u003eThe Setting\u003cbr\u003eA Vast Hothouse of Sexual Immorality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe signs of immorality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUse of the Streets \/ Places of Amusement \/ Living Conditions: One-Room Dwellings and Sexual Licence\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharacters in the family drama\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Head of the Family \/ Children \/ Young People \/ Women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Natural History of Transgressions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eProfligacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Reign of the Impure \/ Animality\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. LOVE AND MARRIAGE\u003cbr\u003e'My vile seducer has been the cause of four other young women's ruin\u003cbr\u003eCasual Loves and Impossible Romances\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Female servants are far from being a virtuous class'\u003cbr\u003e'Nice life this, for a girl of three and twenty, my Kerristian friends'\u003cbr\u003e'Home, sweet home'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTemptations and Precautions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'As I was going to Chelsea one day, I met with a pretty girl on the way...'\u003cbr\u003eCourtship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParents and Family \/ Friends and Workmates \/ Employers \/ A Very Discreet Courtship \/ 'There Was No Courtship or Promise of Marriage'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Where they went to I never heard say...but when she returned, Mrs. Gray said she'd very much rumpl'd her muslin...'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSex before Marriage \/ Promises of Marriage: 'He promised me marriage, they all do' \/ Love Nests, Love Traps \/ The Question of Consent\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWords of love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Now lost to all, her friends, her virtue fled...'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'He promised to marry her soon, but soon he forgot all about her...'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePosting Banns \/ Living in Sin: 'Before everything went wrong' \/ Abortion Attempts \/ 'I told him at which he seemed frightened' \/ 'He said he would see me through my trouble'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeduced and abandoned\u003cbr\u003eFamily and friends\u003cbr\u003e'No Sir, Missus don't permit no followers'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRules of Sexual Morality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEPILOGUE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304845824229,"sku":"NP9780140173260","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140173260.jpg?v=1767731881","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/love-in-the-time-of-victoria-isbn-9780140173260","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}