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Ever wonder how people found suitable strangers to date in the Victorian Age? Well, wonder no longer! In this video, I talk about Matrimonial Advertisements: what they were, what was behind the phenomena and how society viewed them. Also, you'll learn step-by-step how to find love through matrimonial ads, just in case you're ever transported back to 19th century. And importantly, we'll delve into some intriguing marriage ad examples from both British and American newspapers from the 1800s.
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🕰Watching Guide
00:00 How to Online Date the Victorian Era Way [Intro]
00:51 What is a Matrimonial Advertisement?
03:21 Reasons to Advertise
07:12 Society's Response to Newspaper Romance
08:25 How to Guide to Placing an Ad
10:31 How to Write a Personal Ad
13:01 Eligible British Gentlemen's Ads
16:45 British Bachelorettes
19:29 American Men Looking for Love
21:45 American Ladies Seeking Romance
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📚 Books and Movies Mentioned
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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🧐 Learn More
Cocks, H. (2013). The cost of marriage and the matrimonial agency in late Victorian Britain. Social History, 38(1), 66-88. doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2012...
The Marriage Brokers of London. (1888, September 5). Pall Mall Gazette.
The matrimonial news and special advertiser. (1869). C. G. Horton & Co.
The Matrimonial Post and Fashionable Marriage. (1888, December 8). Runcorn Examiner.
N, Q. P., & CORRESPONDENCE. (1835). Correspondence of a Lieutenant in His Majesty's Navy, in search of a wife: arising from a matrimonial advertisement in a late number of The Bristol Mirror. Second edition. [The letters, the first excepted, signed: Q.P.N.]. Bristol: Rose & Son.
PHEGLEY, J. (2013). Victorian Girls Gone Wild: Matrimonial Advertising and the Transformation of Courtship in the Popular Press. Victorian Review, 39(2), 129-146. Retrieved April 29, 2021, from www.jstor.org/stable/24497074
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