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    Love, Sex and Marriage in Victorian America
    Love, Sex and Marriage in Victorian America
    Love, Sex and Marriage in Victorian America
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    Love, Sex and Marriage in Victorian America

    By Charles A. Mills

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    A short look at the strange world of love,sex, and marriage in America during Victorian times (1837-1901).

    No one better exemplifies the popular notion of the buttoned up old maid Victorian American prude than purity crusader Carry Nation. Carry Nation is best remembered for crusading against alcohol, but she was also enthusiastically against tobacco, politicians, and sex. She lectured young couples on the evils of buggy riding, she stopped women on the street to warn them against the dangers of seduction, and she wrote a newspaper column whose main theme was the evil of self abuse. People like Carry Nation have given us a view of Victorian America. We think we know the Victorians, but do we? The same passions, strengths and weaknesses that exist now, existed then, but people organized themselves very differently.

     

    Includes: Courtship, Weddings, Birth Control and Abortuion, Marriage and Divorce, Being Gay, and more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles A. Mills
    Release dateSep 2, 2020
    ISBN9781393549925
    Love, Sex and Marriage in Victorian America
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    Charles A. Mills

    Chuck Mills has a passion for history. He is the author of Hidden History of Northern Virginia, Echoes of Manassas, Historic Cemeteries of Northern Virginia and Treasure Legends of the Civil War and has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles on historical subjects. Chuck is the producer and cohost of Virginia Time Travel, a history television show that airs to some 2 million viewers in Northern Virginia. He lives on the banks of the Potomac River on land once owned by George Washington.

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