Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000: An Open Elite?

K. Schutte

Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000: An Open Elite?
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Published
14 May 2014
Pages
290
ISBN
9781137327796

Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000: An Open Elite?

K. Schutte

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Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women’s marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War.

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