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Change of Condition: Women's Rhetorical Strategies on Marriage, 1710-1756
… Social historians have argued for the rise of companionacy in the eighteenth century without paying attention to women's accounts of the fears and uncertainties surrounding the prospect of marriage. I argue that having more latitude to choose a husband did not diminish the enormous impact that …