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Romantic love was considered an immature basis for marriage. [4] In the 17th century, most colonies' laws required consent of parents to marriage, with some, such as New Haven and Plymouth Colony, requiring a young man to obtain a woman's father's consent even to pay court to her. Enforcement of such laws fell into disuse by the 18th century as ...
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, otherwise known as simply McTeague, is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty and violence as the result of jealousy and greed .
1829 portrait of James Allen, entitled "The Female Husband!" A female husband is a person born as a woman, living as a man, who marries a woman. The term was used from the seventeenth century, and was popularised in 1746 by Henry Fielding's fictionalised account of the trial of Mary Hamilton, titled The Female Husband.
In the United States during the 19th century, there was recognition of the relationship of two women making a long-term commitment to each other and cohabitating, referred to at the time as a Boston marriage; however, the general public at the time likely did not assume that sexual activities were part of the relationship. [51]
A bride from the late 19th century wearing a black or dark coloured wedding dress. Though Mary, Queen of Scots, wore a white wedding gown in 1559 when she married her first husband, Francis Dauphin of France, the tradition of a white wedding dress is commonly credited to Queen Victoria's choice to wear a white court dress at her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840.
French and Belgian writers maintained that in the absence of an express provision in the Code declaring a marriage by proxy void that a marriage so celebrated before an officer of the civil status must be deemed valid. [23] In 19th century Italy, marriage by proxy was prohibited except with respect to the King and members of the Italian royal ...
Possibly as early as the 1830s, followers of the Latter Day Saint movement (also known as Mormonism), were practicing the doctrine of polygamy or "plural marriage". After the death of church founder Joseph Smith, the doctrine was officially announced in Utah Territory in 1852 by Mormon leader Brigham Young.
A plate from the 1742 deluxe edition of Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded showing Mr. B intercepting Pamela's first letter home to her mother. Pamela Andrews is a pious, virtuous fifteen-year-old, the daughter of impoverished labourers, who works for Lady B as a maid in her Bedfordshire estate.