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In this blog, I'll be showcasing funny, unique, poignant, and just plain interesting personal ads from the nineteenth century that I've found while working on my PhD dissertation on marriage and love in nineteenth-century America.
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Advertising for Love

English - Personal Ads, American History, Victorian Era
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Advertising for Love · 11M ago

Well at least he's honest

 Matrimonials had a bad reputation.  All the critics thought it was only gold-diggers and scalawags, or people who were totally desperate, who would ever use such a crass and horrible means of trying to find a spouse.  Now I argue, quite convincingly (if I do say so myself), that in r...
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Advertising for Love · 11M ago

Well at least he's honest

 Matrimonials had a bad reputation.  All the critics thought it was only gold-diggers and scalawags, or people who were totally desperate, who would ever use such a crass and horrible means of trying to find a spouse.  Now I argue, quite convincingly (if I do say so myself), that in r...
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Advertising for Love · 1Y ago

Orphan preferred

Why do all these men only want to marry orphans?  Okay, one other guy.  But I feel like I've seen this elsewhere.  Anyway, one man or twenty men, it's weird and I want to know why. An American gentleman, thirty years of age, wishes to form the acquaintance of some American lady (an ...
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Advertising for Love · 1Y ago

Orphan preferred

Why do all these men only want to marry orphans?  Okay, one other guy.  But I feel like I've seen this elsewhere.  Anyway, one man or twenty men, it's weird and I want to know why. An American gentleman, thirty years of age, wishes to form the acquaintance of some American lady (an ...
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Advertising for Love · 1Y ago

Leaving a legacy

I find this ad both charming and a little weird.  There's something a little...romantic and even heroic, I guess...about what this man is trying to do, but I have to wonder what lady would take him up on this offer.  See for yourself: Matrimonial. - A young unmarried cavalry officer, who...
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Advertising for Love · 1Y ago

Leaving a legacy

I find this ad both charming and a little weird.  There's something a little...romantic and even heroic, I guess...about what this man is trying to do, but I have to wonder what lady would take him up on this offer.  See for yourself: Matrimonial. - A young unmarried cavalry officer, who...
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Advertising for Love · 1Y ago

Dissed

These are two funny missed connections that were from the same day.  They both seem just a little out of the ordinary, in that in both cases there is a decided brush-off involved.  See for yourselves: Will the lady that the car stopped for in Greenwich avenue on Tuesday last, and then ref...
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Advertising for Love · 1Y ago

Dissed

These are two funny missed connections that were from the same day.  They both seem just a little out of the ordinary, in that in both cases there is a decided brush-off involved.  See for yourselves: Will the lady that the car stopped for in Greenwich avenue on Tuesday last, and then ref...
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Advertising for Love · 1Y ago

Pretty women

 Well, hello there!  I haven't written in quite some time!  Can't believe how time flies.  Well, despite the fact that I am teaching today and still haven't finished my lecture (please don't tell my students), I feel so bad about being so remiss that I'm putting up an entry anywa...
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Advertising for Love · 1Y ago

Pretty women

 Well, hello there!  I haven't written in quite some time!  Can't believe how time flies.  Well, despite the fact that I am teaching today and still haven't finished my lecture (please don't tell my students), I feel so bad about being so remiss that I'm putting up an entry anywa...
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