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    Matrimony, Inc.: From Personal Ads to Swiping Right, a Story of America Looking for Love
    Matrimony, Inc.: From Personal Ads to Swiping Right, a Story of America Looking for Love
    Matrimony, Inc.: From Personal Ads to Swiping Right, a Story of America Looking for Love
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    Matrimony, Inc.: From Personal Ads to Swiping Right, a Story of America Looking for Love

    Written by Francesca Beauman

    Narrated by Claire Storey

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    Get ready for a new perspective on the making of modern America with this clever and funny history of eighteenth-century personal ads that centered around finding a spouse.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateNov 17, 2020
    ISBN9781666544947
    Author

    Francesca Beauman

    Francesca Beauman is a historian, journalist and television presenter. She is the author of The Pineapple: King of Fruits, The Woman's Book, Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts Ad and How to Crack an Egg with One Hand: A Pocketbook for the New Mother. She divides her time between London and Los Angeles and is married with two young children.

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