How to Online Date the Victorian Age Way | * British Matrimonial Ads*

Ever wonder how people found suitable strangers to date in the Victorian Age? Well, wonder no longer! In this video, I talk about Matrimonial Advertisements: what they were, what was behind the phenomena and how society viewed them. Also, you'll learn step-by-step how to find love through matrimonial ads, just in case you're ever transported back to 19th century. And importantly, we'll delve into some *intriguing* marriage ad examples from both British and American newspapers from the 1800s.

🕰Watching Guide
00:00 How to Online Date the Victorian Era Way [Intro]
00:51 What is a Matrimonial Advertisement?
03:21 Reasons to Advertise
07:12 Society's Response to Newspaper Romance
08:25 How to Guide to Placing an Ad
10:31 How to Write a Personal Ad
13:01 Eligible British Gentlemen's Ads
16:45 British Bachelorettes
19:29 American Men Looking for Love
21:45 American Ladies Seeking Romance

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🧐 Learn More

Cocks, H. (2013). The cost of marriage and the matrimonial agency in late Victorian Britain. Social History, 38(1), 66–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2012.759774

The Marriage Brokers of London. (1888, September 5). Pall Mall Gazette.

The matrimonial news and special advertiser. (1869). C. G. Horton & Co.

The Matrimonial Post and Fashionable Marriage. (1888, December 8). Runcorn Examiner.

N, Q. P., & CORRESPONDENCE. (1835). Correspondence of a Lieutenant in His Majesty's Navy, in search of a wife: arising from a matrimonial advertisement in a late number of The Bristol Mirror. Second edition. [The letters, the first excepted, signed: Q.P.N.]. Bristol: Rose & Son.

PHEGLEY, J. (2013). Victorian Girls Gone Wild: Matrimonial Advertising and the Transformation of Courtship in the Popular Press. Victorian Review, 39(2), 129-146. Retrieved April 29, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/24497074

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