TY - JOUR
TI - Victorian Courtship – from Ideal to Real. The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine and the Rules of Etiquette
AU - Sakowicz, Iwona
TI - Victorian Courtship – from Ideal to Real. The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine and the Rules of Etiquette
AB - 
	The Victorian era in Britain was characterized by an emphasis on “respectability” which formed a part of the domesticity ideology that treated the home as a place created for women. Proper, respectable behaviour was a function of belonging to the middle class. A significant number of savoir‑vivre guides published contemporaneously informed the reader not only about receiving guests but also about courtship and marriage. The subject of the article is a close reading of these etiquette guides and the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine letter section, which frequently addresses issues of courtship and marriage. The analysis of the texts using rigid gender roles as presented in the guides and the comparison of them with the letter section of the magazine shows that young readers expressed their independence and assertiveness in trying to contest these rules.
VL - 2023
IS - Tom 14 (2023)
PY - 2023
SN - 2081-3309
C1 - 2391-6001
SP - 215
EP - 227
DO - 10.4467/23916001HG.23.014.18815
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-historica-gedanensia/artykul/victorian-courtship-from-ideal-to-real-the-englishwomans-domestic-magazine-and-the-rules-of-etiquette
KW - flirt
KW - courtship
KW - victorian
KW - etiquette guides
KW - Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine