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“... in a different position. How they chose a profession, or how their parents chose one for them, as Rory Muir demonstrates, determined to a substantial degree the quality and even the length of their life. Barring a couple of unlikely ways out, such as marrying a rich heiress (rare because rich heiresses tended to marry men at least as rich as they ...”

“... circumstances friendships and other attachments were made and lost – and not just in novels, as Rory Muir demonstrates in his compendious guide to courtship, proposals, engagements, weddings and marriages in late Georgian England. Muir’s documentary survey combines summaries and analyses of ...”