Love Guide
29, Jul, 2010

History of Courting

This section is based largely on a book written in 1953 by E.S. Turner entitled A History of Courting and is, ironicially, offered here as an historical look at courting both from the perspective of the book itself, and that of a 21st Century reader observing the language and attitude towards courting, or dating, in the early 1950s.

1 Proposals and Dowries
2 Private Courting
3 Transport And Courting
4 The Media Reaction
5 Changes In Courtship
6 The New Woman
7 Gretna Green
8 The Penny Post
9 Victorian Etiquette
10 Chaperones
11 Love Among the Prudes
12 Strange Science in the 1800s
13 The Europeans
14 Idiosyncratic Courtships
15 Women of the Time
16 Romanticists and Others
17 The Rev Peters
18 Bundling Described
19 Puritans And Bundling
20 Bundling
21 More Letters
22 And More Correspondence
23 Further Correspondence
24 Correspondence Course
25 Country Courting
26 The Sentimental Novel
27 Pleasure Gardens
28 Parliament And Personals
29 Serenades And Wooing
30 Rights For Women
31 Towards Sensibility
32 SamuelPepys
33 Masks
34 Restoration
35 Letters
36 English Puritans
37 The Old American Way
38 Sinful Dalliance
39 The Class Divide
40 Burtons Courting
41 Dekkers Courting
42 KIssing And Bussing
43 Royal Love
44 Fashionable Courtship
45 All Five Senses
46 Betrothal
47 Parents Choice
48 Chivalry
49 Rulings Of Love
50 Romantic Love
 
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